Private sector development and sharing economy.The new challenges of Albania’s economic development

Since the early 1990s transition to an open-market economy, Albania made enormous steps forward in the direction of a liberalization of the public sector. Despite the economic crisis of 2008, Albania has generally been able to maintain both positive growth rates and fi nancial stability. However, the expected growth for the biennium 2015-2016 will be below country’s potential. What can be done to support the private sector? The key elements for this aim are three: 1) an enabling environment (national regulatory framework, namely laws, rules, transparency, corruption, labor…), 2) a system providing fi nancial and non-financial support (technical assistance, innovation, marketing), 3) an investment in the entrepreneurial capacities. Given this framework, what kind of impact could have a potential development of the sharing economy in Albania? What could be the benefi ts and the criticalities?