IMF Albania- Report on the observance of Standards and Codes – Fiscal Transparency Module, July 8, 2003 pg 16.

40. External scrutiny of macroeconomic and fiscal projections is permitted, but limited reflecting the absence of published assumptions and methodology as well as institutional capacity constrains outside government. There is currently little independent review of macroeonomic and fiscal forecasts, not even at parliamentary level. This primary reflects the absence of published assumptions and methodology, but it is also due to capacity constrains of parliament as well as local research institutes and others. However, recently parliament and a local NGO have intensified their monitoring and scrutiny of the government’s economic and fiscal policies, which should result in more intensive debate by general public. In 2002 one local NGO published a “ Citizens Guide to the Budget” in Albanian and English in hard copies and in the website