S&T Country Report - Albania - WBC-INCO Net

investments. Since its establishment, the ACIT has played an important role
particularly as a centre of trade information and professional research in the area of
trade policy. ACIT supports the decision-making and marketing processes by
providing to the interested parties accurate information and knowledge on conditions,
opportunities and risks involved in international trade issues, as well as through
unbiased analysis on the trends and problems related to the Albania's international
trade.
The Information Resource Center was established in the frame of the ACIT project
and supports participatory and informed trade policy decision by providing all
stakeholders with accurate information and data about conditions, opportunities and
risks that international trade entails. Being client-oriented, the set-up of facilities,
types of information and services provided will are by consulting their clients’ needs
and preferences.
Name of
initiative:
Albania Center for Economic Research (ACER)
Contact: A. Frasheri Str., Bldg. 4, Entr. 3, Apt. 24, Tirana, Albania
Email: zpreci@adanet.com.al
Website: http://www.balkannetwork.org/Albania1.htm
Albanian Center for Economic Research (ACER) was the first non-profit organization
to emerge in Albania after the political changes in 1991. Founded and incorporated
by a group of university professors, economists and bankers, ACER was registered
in the Tirana District Law Court of Tirana in June 1993. ACER has been active in
research identification and execution, information publication and dissemination
throughout the public opinion exchange, aiming to:
• strengthen parliamentary democracy and private entrepreneurship in Albania;
and
• encourage the wide-scale recognition of classical liberal values in Albanian
society.
The objectives of ACER are to advance educational and scientific profile and
understanding, in the field of the promotion of free enterprises, limited government
and personal responsibility as pertaining to Albania; to publish, to conduct seminars,
and to engage in such other and further means as may be necessary and proper to
accomplish the foregoing objects and purposes. ACER encourages an open dialogue
between scholars and policy makers and promotes public-private coalition building.
ACER’s activity includes:
• Research and research management;
• Education and training;
• National policy development and legal and regulatory reform;
• Public outreach and advocacy; and
• Information exchange and dissemination.
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