Albania
Albania has achieved important development results over the past two decades. The country managed to catch up with EU. While the per capita income was only 18 per cent of the average EU income in 2000, it increased to 32 per cent in 2021.
However, the per capita income is still one of the lowest in Europe and the convergence needs to be accelerated. Demographic challenges (aging of the population and continuous emigration), a limited structural transformation (with a third of the workforce employed in agriculture), and incomplete economic and governance reforms hold back the country. Read more about the ILO in Albania
Albania Decent Work Country Programme 2023-26
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How digitalization, paired with artificial intelligence, helps labour inspectorates address undeclared work in Albania
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ILO Central and Eastern Europe Newsletter March 2024
Guidelines for reinforcing the role of labour inspectors in addressing undeclared work
