PRISTINA, April 3/ATA/-The government of Kosovo reacted to the World Bank report saying that 17 thousand jobs cut is untrue.
“The data provided by the Agency of Statistics in Kosovo, the Central Bank of Kosovo and the Financial Report on Budgetary Expenditure 2018 speak of different facts. However, we are surprised by the will of the Chairman of the Democratic League of Kosovo Isa Mustafa of making use of this information without a proper analysis and irrespective of the fact that he an economist by profession”, is read in the press statement of the government of Kosovo.
Thus, according to Kosovo Institute of Statistics, the number of the unemployed in 2018 got reduced with 11.611 persons, implying that unemployment scale fell by 1% if compared with 2017.
Kosovo economic growth in 2018 was 4.2%; public investments increased by 13.1%, remittances by 6.0%, employment in public sector 5.2%, investment in the private sector 6.4%”. /a.g/p.s./
