TY - BOOK ID - 84545148 TI - Albania : Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix. AU - International Monetary Fund. AU - International Monetary Fund PY - 2003 SN - 1455239097 1451986734 1280979445 1452778175 9786613751058 PB - Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, DB - UniCat KW - Exports and Imports KW - Foreign Exchange KW - Labor KW - Taxation KW - Economics: General KW - Informal Economy KW - Underground Econom KW - Trade: General KW - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General KW - Employment KW - Unemployment KW - Wages KW - Intergenerational Income Distribution KW - Aggregate Human Capital KW - Aggregate Labor Productivity KW - Currency KW - Foreign exchange KW - Economics of specific sectors KW - International economics KW - Public finance & taxation KW - Labour KW - income economics KW - Informal economy KW - Exports KW - Real effective exchange rates KW - Real exchange rates KW - Public employment KW - Economic sectors KW - International trade KW - Informal sector KW - Economics KW - Economic theory KW - Balance of trade KW - Tax administration and procedure KW - Albania UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:84545148 AB - This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix analyzes causes and consequences of real exchange rate appreciation in Albania. The paper highlights that Albania has experienced a sustained real appreciation since 1992, which appears to have been brought about by largely beneficial developments: price liberalization, productivity growth, external inflows, and a successful stabilization policy. The pace of appreciation has slowed in the last few years, and a real depreciation in 2002 has brought the real effective exchange rate back to its January 2000 level. ER -