TIRANA, April 25 /ATA/ Harvard University will help the country’s municipalities to strategically develop their territory and grow their economies.
Minister of State for Local Government, Arbjan Mazniku, paid a visit to this university and during a meeting with Professor Ricardo Hausman, the interlocutors agreed to establish cooperation.
Mazniku said that, “as it turned out during the whole tour of the local dialogue, which was held during the span of November-December, but also during the Shkodra meeting, one of the priorities of the reform to the benefit of the local government is empowering them to boost economic development of their territory.”
In this context, the minister continued, during these meetings at Harvard University, we explored with Professor Rikardo Hasman and with an institution that he leads here, the possibilities of boosting economic development of the municipalities of Albania.
“During these meetings at Harvard University, we talked with Professor Ricardo Hasman and with an institution he leads here called the growth laboratory how to use the knowledge and scientific research that this university has in Albania, and to make an analysis of all the municipalities of Albania, the economic potential they will have, and how we can use this knowhow to boost the strategic development of the territory,” said Mazniku.
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