 Tirana, June 10, 2008 – The World Bank Office in Tirana is opening today the first annual Conference called Albania - World Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE). This first edition of this two-day conference will address aspects of Albania's growth and transition focusing on creating a competitive labor force in the country.
World Bank experts and Albania researchers will present their works on topics that include labor costs, taxation and informality; agriculture, rural labor market trends and competitiveness; skills gap, education and training policies; financing basic services for a competitive labor force; poverty analysis; unemployment and labor market analysis; social protection; information society; migration and drain brain; small business issues, including access to credit and technologies.
This first ABCDE Conference for Albania was proceeded by a call for papers on the subject of labor market. The large number of submitted papers by Albanian and foreign researchers, and especially by young Albanians who study abroad, demonstrate the interest of Albanian intellectuals on development and growth issues in the country.      Â
The conference will include presentations and discussions of recent analytical work by the World Bank, but will also include work by relevant local and regional government agencies, development partners, academic institutions, think tanks and NGOs.
This conference is intended to be an annual event focusing on different development themes each year.
For more information, visit:
http://www.worldbank.org.al
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