Università degli Studi di Pavia
Facoltà di Economia
Maria Sassi
Economia e gestione dell’azienda
agraria e agroindustriale
DRAFT
TITLE OF THE PROJECT
Input-Output (I-O) Table for the Albanian Economy
INSTITUTIONS INVOLVED
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OBJECT AND IMPORTANCE
The object of the project is to make a progress towards the compilation a first I-O Table for the economy of Albania.
The recent development in the Albanian SNA indicators provides a useful basis for the representation of the general equilibrium situation of the country’s economy and a presentation of the economic interaction among different sectors.
From a national account’s point of view the I-O matrix, estimating each figure from two directions, can be used to check the internal consistency of national accounts and so improve the macro-economic statistics. Furthermore, the Make and Use matrices on the basis of which an I-O table is constructed support the process of adaptation of the country’s national accounts to the EU standards.
The I-O matrix also represents a quantitative tool to analysts which could contribute substantially to:
- the understanding of the nature of the national economy;
- the projection of economic activity, impact analysis and structural and technical change trace.
In other words, the usefulness of the instrument is on the side of the Government, as basis of the national accounting and for economic and political decision making; businessmen, for business decision making; researchers, for analysis related to economic and political study; international organizations, for determining their relationship with the country.
PHASES:
a. Sharing of the project with INSTAT and its involvement in all the phases with a reciprocal exchange of knowledge and information;
b. Screening of the information already collected by INSTAT and their organization in order to represent a basis for the compilation of a Use matrix (commodities brought by each industry to make its output), a Make matrix (commodities made by each industry), a final demand vector (household and Government consumption, capital formation and exports) and a primary inputs vector (labour, depreciation, indirect taxes, operating surplus, imports).