Exchange rate of GBP, EUR, CHF and USD currencies against ALL during 2015

Open Data Albania is updating the information regarding the exchange rates for such currencies as the British Pound, GBP, EUR, CHF, Swiss Franc and US Dollar, USD, against Albanian ALL during 2015, according to the official rate of the Bank of Albania. In a country with a small and opened economy as Albania, ALL exchange rate plays an important role in the price level and…

Women’s representation in the Assembly, 1 January 2016

Open Data Albania is updating data on the representation of women in Parliament. On 1 January 2016, the Albanian Parliament had thirty-one female deputies. A year ago, the Parliament had only 26 deputies and the rate of their participation in the Assembly was 18.6%.  On January 1, 2016 the participation rate of women in the parliament was 22.14%. Fifteen female deputies are currently representing the…

The ranking of Albania in Global Terrorism Index, 2006-2014 GTI

Open Data Albania is publishing the rankings in Global Terrorism Index. The data concerning a period from 2006 up to 2014 are based on ratings of the Institute of Economics and Peace. The index measures and evaluates the direct and indirect impact of terrorist events, including victims, injuries, material damages and psychological effects they are triggering. The indicator shows only the current impact of terrorism…

Unconditional and specific transfers by municipalities, 2016

Open Data Albania is investigating the level of unconditional and specific transfers to local government units for 2016. The unconditional transfer aims to supplement to local government units the difference between the needs for expenditures and revenues they are generating. In 2016, the unconditional transfer amounted to ALL 11.8 billion, from which 96.3% was allocated to municipalities and 3.7% to counties. In addition, the approved…

Statistics on corruption on the basis of criminal proceedings by the judiciary in the Republic of Albania 2004-2009

Statistics on court cases and offenders convicted of criminal offences related to corruption and abuse of office while exercising a public function. 1.1 Dynamics. The number of cases and offenders for this category of criminal offences is continuously increasing from year to year. The trend 2004-2009 is increasing.   More concretely, the following numbers of cases were registered by year:  Source: Ministry of Justice, Annual…

Findings from monitoring of 61 municipalities public procurement procedures during the period July 27 to December 7, 2015.

The team working at AIS organization, a promoter of Open Data Albania, is setting up a database called Transparent Procurement, which will contain well-structured data about public procurement procedures conducted at Local Government (Municipality) level. Monitoring of procurement procedures of local governments coincides with an interest to directly monitor proceedings related to services and public works, which have impacts on citizens’ daily life. On the…

Nepotism, Media reports that such phenomenon affects 70% of Senior Officials

Various reports on the employment of family members, spouses and children of MPs and high officials have recently been published in the media. The articles shed light on nepotism, preferential hiring and lack of meritocracy. The details published in said media reports have been extracted from datasets and documents published in the data base created by AIS Money and Power. This database oofers oppen access…

Employed in the budget sector 2016

Open Data Albania has updated data on the number of employees to be employed in the budgetary institutions in 2016. The data are extracted from the accompanying tables of the law on the state budget 2016. Budgetary Institutions are ministries, directories under direct subordination and independent and constitutional institutions. Their salaries are covered by the state budget. During 2011-2014, the number of budgetary employees has…

Local taxes in Albania 2015/2016

Open Data Albania is investigating on the types and rates of national taxes in the Republic of Albania. The law no.9632, dated 30.10.2006 as amended, provides for nine types of local taxes: Simplified income tax for small business; Tax on immovable property, which includes tax on buildings and tax on agricultural land and territory; Local  hotel bed occupancy fee; Local infrastructure impact tax due to…