Education and Its Role in the Economic Development of the Country and Government Policies to be Undertaken to Increase the Quality of Education, the Case of Albania

Abstract

Our paper focuses on education and, how the high-quality education affects welfare and economic growth in the case of Albania. The data were provided by INSTAT (Institute of Statistics, Albania) on the results of the adult education survey by gender, age group which refers to the population aged 25-64 years and, level of education, including three levels of education, elementary/primary education, secondary education, and postsecondary/higher education. Despite the fact that we provided the data in 2017, they would serve us to highlight some problems related to the quality of education in Albania, which would be important to develop different strategies to improve these problems in the coming years. Another priority of this paper is to define and recommend some government policies that would increase the quality of education, in order for us to have a better economic growth in the future. Here we have used the descriptive method, and through tables and charts we have provided a comparative analysis, based on some statistics which are expressed in percentage (%). However, the main purpose here is to show through comparative analysis the level of participation in types of education, trainings, and cultural activities by gender, age group, and level of education, therefore showing the relationship between the quality of education and economic growth. We will also handle some of the government policies that recommend in order to increase quality of the education in the future.

Received: 4 September 2020 / Accepted: 17 December 2020 / Published: 17 January 2021