Author: Финанце Тхинк

🤝 Strong economies are built on strong partnerships. Finance Think and the British Business Association in North Macedonia signed a Memorandum of Understanding yesterday, laying the foundation for closer cooperation on issues of importance to the business community, policymakers and society. The partnership brings together the British Business Association’s extensive business network and Finance Think’s […]
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🔴 What awaits future pensioners? 🟥 What kind of pension model do we need, and who will bear the burden of future reforms? 📌 Without measures, the deficit in the Pension and Disability Insurance Fund will continue to grow, and by the mid-2040s there will be fewer insured persons than pensioners, according to a study […]
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From 5 to 7 October, the Civil Society & Think Tank Forum 2026 took place in Prishtina. As the official civil-society platform of the Berlin Process, the Forum also brought together representatives of Finance Think. Over the course of three days and through a series of thematic discussions, representatives of civil-society organisations and think tanks […]
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North Macedonia’s pension system is facing structural fiscal pressures that are already present rather than a matter for the distant future. The structural deficit of the Pension and Disability Insurance Fund—defined as pension expenditure, transition costs related to the second pillar and healthcare contributions, less the Fund’s own contribution revenues—reached MKD 54.4 billion, or 5.2% […]
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📈 Economic activity accelerated, but the acceleration was largely driven by budget spending 🏗️ In the second quarter of 2026, GDP growth accelerated to 4.3%. This was the first quarter with growth above 4% since the post-pandemic quarters of 2021. During this quarter, growth was predominantly driven by construction (21.9%), which, on the expenditure side, […]
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📍 From 1 to 3 July, we participated in the regional workshop for grant recipients under the WB Reform and Growth Monitor project, held in Tirana, Albania. The workshop brought together organisations from across the Western Balkans that will monitor reforms related to the Growth Plan and the European Union accession process. This also marked […]
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Finance Think is participating in the Fiscal Councils Peers Learning Event, organized by the World Bank and the European Union, bringing together fiscal councils to exchange experiences and good practices in independent fiscal oversight, 6-7 July 2026, in Vienna, Austria. We are especially proud that the partnership between Finance Think and the Fiscal Council was […]
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At the roundtable “Enhancing Competitiveness: The Energy Transition, CBAM and the Future of Macedonian Industry,” Finance Think presented the study “Readiness for CBAM and the Green Industrial Transition in North Macedonia.” 🔗 https://shorturl.at/CWIXg 📊 The study shows that North Macedonia is at a critical juncture of energy and industrial transformation. In 2025, exports covered by […]
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KOMPAS: Monitoring of Government Promises (2024-2028) : findings from the first two years Skopje, 1 7 June 202 6 Finance Think, in partnership with the Macedonian Center for Civic Education, the Macedonian Medical Association – Association for Intersectoral Cooperation and the Youth Educational Forum, presents the upgraded KOMPAS monitoring framework for systematic monitoring of the […]
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If you want to attend, please register via info@financethink.mk
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