COVID-19 Effects on SMEs Businesses in the Durres Region
COVID-19 Effects on SMEs Businesses in the Durres Region

Author(s): Osman Metalla, Shkëlqim Fortuzi
Subject(s): Health and medicine and law, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Udruženje ekonomista i menadžera Balkana
Keywords: SME; Lockdown; Income; Employees
Summary/Abstract: The effects of Covid 19 have hit the global economy; therefore, the Albanian economy could not be excluded from these effects. This paper examines the issues that small and medium enterprises in Albania are facing under the current conditions identifying the most significant difficulties the SMEs are facing. SMEs have been severely affected, starting with the illnesses of the employers, quarantine and lockdown of the businesses reduced demand for different products and insufficient supply. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the effects that Covid-19 had in small and medium enterprises regarding the consequences of restriction measures taken by the government had in terms of production, income, number of employees reduction, the way of doing business and how ready are these companies to return in the post-Covid period. The data were gathered through structured questionnaires and analysed by the authors. The result shows that Small and Medium Size Enterprises have been heavily affected by Covid-19 in terms of income, way of doing business and in reducing the number of employees.

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