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Albania Business Forecast Report
Published: February 4 2010 Quarterly
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The Albania Business Forecast Report provides essential macroeconomic, political and financial analysis for companies doing business in Albania.
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Report Description
The Albania Business Forecast Report helps businesses with Albanian market assessment, strategic planning and decision making to promote growth and profitability in Albania and is an essential tool for CEOs, Chairmen, Finance Directors/CFOs, Managing Directors, Marketing/Sales Directors with commercial interests in this emerging market.
An influential new analysis of Albania's political, economic and financial prospects through end-2014, just published by award-winning forecasters, Business Monitor International.
Key Uses
- Forecast the pace and stability of Albania's economic and industry growth through end-2014
- Identify and evaluate adverse political and economic trends in Albania, to facilitate risk mitigation
- Assess the critical shortcomings of Albania's business environment that pose hidden barriers and costs to corporate profitability
- Contextualise Albania's country risks against regional peers using BMI's country comparative risk ratings system
- Target business opportunities in Albania's high-growth industry sectors
- Evaluate external threats to doing business in Albania, including currency volatility, the commodity price boom and protectionist policies
The Albania Business Forecast Report by Business Monitor International (BMI) includes three major sections: Albania's Political Outlook, Albania's Economic Outlook, Albania's Business Environment and Albania's Key Industry Sectors.
Albania's Political Outlook:
What are the political risks to doing business in Albania over the next 5 years?
BMI's Albania Country Risk Ratings evaluate the short- and medium-term threats posed by government instability, adverse economic policy-making, deterioration in the business environment and external shocks.
Albania Political Outlook Contents
- SWOT Analysis for the Albanian Market Political strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats facing Albania.
- Political Stability and Risk Assessment for Albania BMI's Risk Ratings assess explicit short and long-term risks to political stability; latest ratings, rankings and trends for Albania's risk are compared with regional and global averages.
- Current Administration and Policy-making in Albania BMI profiles key policy-makers and power-brokers in the Albanian government, assessing threats to the continuity of Albanian economic policy, and likely changes to the business operating environment through end-2018.
- Albanian Foreign Policy BMI examines key trends and shifts in Albania's foreign relations and alignments with regional neighbours, the United States and Europe, focusing on external influences.
Key Benefits
- Benchmark Albania's risk profile against its neighbours, the global and regional average, allowing easy comparison of risks between key business markets.
- Identify, evaluate and anticipate political and security risks to the business environment in Albania, and to your company's current operations and future plans.
- Gain valuable insights into the Albanian government and policy-making, through BMI's specialist team of analysts and economists, and their exclusive network of private and public sector sources.
Albania's Economic Outlook:
How will Albanian economic policy-making and performance impact on corporate profitability over 2009-2014?
BMI provides our fully independent 5-year forecasts for Albania through end-2014 for more than 35 macroeconomic variables. We evaluate Albanian growth, and also forecast the impact of economic management, including central bank policy, on profitability.
Albania Economic Outlook Contents
The Albania Business Forecast Report features explicit BMI economic forecasts for country, with supporting commentary and analysis, for end-2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 set against Albanian government views. Underpinning our Albania forecasts are key assumptions for the global economy through end-2014, covering growth, inflation, employment, trade and investment, interest and exchange rates in the US, Japan and the Euro-zone.
Coverage of Key Economic Issues in Albania
- Economic Activity in Albania Real GDP growth; industrial growth; employment growth; inflation and consumer prices; consumption (indicative wages, retail sales, consumer confidence)
- Fiscal Policy in Albania Current macroeconomic strategy and implementation policies; government finance (revenue, expenditure, budget balance); tax reforms
- Monetary Policy in Albania Interest rate trends (bank lending and deposit rates); inflation (retail price inflation, consumer price inflation); exchange rate policy in country; currency controls; influence of foreign direct investment inflows; exchange rates and foreign exchange reserves
- Balance of Payments in Albania Merchandise trade (exports, imports, trade balance); current and capital account balances
- Foreign Direct Investment in Albania Foreign direct investment approvals and inflows; the foreign investment climate
- Albanian External Debt Debt profile (short- and long-term debt; public and private sector exposure)
Key Benefits
- Rely upon BMI's 100% independent Forecast Scenarios for Albania and underlying assumptions - we take no advertising and are privately-owned.
- Exploit the benefits of BMI's comprehensive and reliable macroeconomic database on Albania, sourced and fully maintained by BMI from an extensive network of private sector, government and multilateral contacts.
- Gain key insights into the current and future direction of Albanian government economic policy
Albania's Business Environment:
Albania's Business Environment Risk Rating with SWOT Analysis
Short- and long-term business environment risk ratings for Albania, benchmarked against ratings for regional neighbours.
Country Competitiveness for Albania Competitiveness of Albania's business operating environment in supporting corporate growth and profitability over the 5-year forecast horizon, compared with regional neighbours.
Albania Business Environment Contents
- Albania's Domestic Environment. Transparency, cronyism and corruption; labour market flexibility; corporate tax burden; interest rate levels; access of private sector to lines of credit; sophistication of banking sector and stock market; levels of business confidence; infrastructure and IT
- Foreign Direct Investment in Albania Analysis of foreign investment regime, foreign ownership laws; attractiveness of business environment to foreign investors; review of major foreign direct investments over the last 24 months, and of strategic sectors attracting most interest
- Foreign Trade with Albania Analysis of trading environment, government trade policy, liberalisation measures, tariffs and membership of trade areas
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