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Budget Comprehensiveness

km — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 10:32:21 +0000

The major instrument that regulates budgeting processes in the Republic of Albania is Law no. 9936, dated 26.06.2008, ‘on the Management of Budgetary System in the Republic of Albania”. This law regulates the budgetary system in Albania, which is composed of the state budget, local budgets and special funds. This law introduced for the first time the statutory requirement for local governments, as well as other general government entities, to draft and adopt medium term budget programmes. The law regulates a series of issues pertinent to local governments as well, including structure, principles of budgets; elements of intergovernmental transfers; processes of budget preparation, execution and control/inspection; etc.

PP Local Government Organisational Development

km — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 10:12:40 +0000

Territorial consolidation has occured in several European countries based on an array of arguments, including the need for higher administrative and financial capacities to provide services and infrastructure (water, waste treatment and local roads); demographic changes which are a challenge both for local government that lose population and for those that experience constant increase. In some countries thereform has reflected the incerasing role of local government in service provision, in particular social services and has served as an instruments to adapt territorial division to changes in function and resource allocation. In others, especially countries that have been affected by the financial crisis see the potential for saving money from the reduction of the number of local government as an important principle for territorial reform.

Revenue Predictability and Sustainability of Local Governments in Albania

km — Sun, 06 Apr 2014 17:17:49 +0000

The terms of reference for this report outline in details the desired structure of report and reference data to be taken into account and analyzed. The goal of this report is to explore the predictability and stability of local government revenues in Albania, identify patterns in revenue assignments and possible impacts of structural changes in the intergovernmental tax system.