Shkodra free zone

grounds, an equivalent policy could be applied in our country
through the
budget. The economic planners should never forget
that only when the government is capable to collect more taxes
than it spends to purchase the material goods and deliver
services, it is able to precisely plan the investments of the
remaining resources in infrastructure,
state- run enterprises or
channel them to various companies through the development
banks.
Since it is clear to all that right now in Albania, foreign savings
represent the sole condition for the capital accumulation, then
Shkodra region should pay special attention to three ways of
attracting foreign savings:
- Obtaining the necessary direct investments from foreign
companies investing for this purpose (for instance, Australian
companies construct the infrastructure in Vietnam, whereas
Japanese companies build factories in Indonesia).
- Borrowing from the world capital market, via banking
institutions such as World Bank, IMF, the European Bank
of
Investments (in recent years, one billion US$ have been
allocated to Albania, but not a single cent reached Shkoder),
etc.
- Obtaining foreign aid from the industrialised countries (this
would impose on Shkoder local government and the citizens a
co-ordination of work for creating the necessary conditions
for stability and fostering the idea that the aid will not "vanish
into the air").
Certainly, the use of the foreign savings on Shkoder area (with
very
low levels of per capita income) is very important, since the
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