Rafuna: Insufficient economic growth, Government Increases Public Investments

The chairman of the Kosovo Chamber of Economics, Lulzim Rafuna, has said the previous 4 per cent economic growth is insufficient. Therefore, the same must be two-way to meet the challenges Kosovo faces.

Rafuna has said they have demanded from institutions that the state budget be directed more in public investments. While, it also points to the form of investments by the diaspora as well.

Economic growth this year is expected to be about 4 percent, which is a growth that leaves no trace in growth, leaves no trace of a reduction in unemployment”.

Kosovo's “in order to leave evidence of economic growth must be biiffy and not single-sided, and that's why we from the beginning when the Budget Law was approved we've asked the country's institutions to have more public investment, to have an environmental reform to have more private investments, and to see how we can do more with our diaspora in the sense of projects which directly affect the country's economic development, and not just to allow our diaspora to buy housing or<1).

Good to buy, but it would have been like those tools that come from the diaspora, to direct them to economic development”, Rafuna told EO.

OEK's chairman has said that remittances are not properly destined, since after buying they remain untapped.

“A part of the real estate that is bought by our diaspora that we consider investment, they stay closed. In fact, it's an expense, because when they come once a year, they're forced to maintain it, to invest in it, so it's not investment”.

The “Investation would be for those who have been released and receive a benefit from renting and so on. True, we call them foreign investments, but here's the question of whether the entire investment should really be called”, Rafuna stressed.