Albania

With Carter Center support, Albania embarked on the formulation of a comprehensive, long-term national development strategy known as the National Strategy for Socioeconomic Development.

Waging Peace

The government of Albania expressed interest in working with The Carter Center on a national development strategy in 1998. In 2000, the Albanian government and the World Bank asked the Center's Global Development Initiative to help promote public participation in formulating a national poverty strategy required by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund for Albania to continue receiving low-interest loans and grants. Albania's poverty strategy, which looked three to five years into the future, was known locally as the National Strategy for Socioeconomic Development.

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