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| authorinstitution =Faculty of Economics and Agribusiness, Agricultural University of Tirana, Albania; School of Law & Government, Dublin City University, Ireland; Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Germany | | authorinstitution =Faculty of Economics and Agribusiness, Agricultural University of Tirana, Albania; School of Law & Government, Dublin City University, Ireland; Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Germany | ||
| authorwebsite =[https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Imami_Drini Profile page at Researchgate], [https://www.dcu.ie/law_and_government/people/Abel-Polese.shtml Profile page at DCU], [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Klodjan_Rama Profile page at Researchgate]}} | | authorwebsite =[https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Imami_Drini Profile page at Researchgate], [https://www.dcu.ie/law_and_government/people/Abel-Polese.shtml Profile page at DCU], [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Klodjan_Rama Profile page at Researchgate]}} | ||
<big>'''By Drini Imami | <big>'''By Drini Imami, Faculty of Economics and Agribusiness, Agricultural University of Tirana, Albania; Abel Polese, School of Law & Government, Dublin City University, Ireland; and Klodjan Rama, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Germany'''</big> | ||
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|style="font-size:1.1em;"|In addition to state lotteries, in Albania ''loteria'' refers to a private lottery scheme through which money is poured into a common pool and is then awarded to one member of the community each month by drawing lots. It works in a way that is similar to the [[tanda]] scheme in Mexico. | |style="font-size:1.1em;"|In addition to state lotteries, in Albania ''loteria'' refers to a private lottery scheme through which money is poured into a common pool and is then awarded to one member of the community each month by drawing lots. It works in a way that is similar to the [[tanda]] scheme in Mexico. | ||
The scheme originated in communist Albania. Although no written reference to the scheme exists that allows the start of the practice to be located chronologically, it is possible to place the practice in the 1970s, as this the period to which most informants refer and was also the period when many of the industrial complexes and large factories started operating in Albania (Kovacs et al 2016)<ref>Kovacs, B., Morris, J., Polese, A., and Imami, D. 2016. ‘Looking at the ‘sharing’ economies concept through the prism of informality’, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society (in press)</ref>. | The scheme originated in communist Albania. Although no written reference to the scheme exists that allows the start of the practice to be located chronologically, it is possible to place the practice in the 1970s, as this the period to which most informants refer and was also the period when many of the industrial complexes and large factories started operating in Albania (Kovacs et al 2016)<ref>Kovacs, B., Morris, J., Polese, A., and Imami, D. 2016. ‘Looking at the ‘sharing’ economies concept through the prism of informality’, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society (in press)</ref>. | ||
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[[File:Banknote used during communist Albania.jpeg|300px|thumb|left|Image of banknote used during communist Albania. Source:]] | [[File:Banknote used during communist Albania.jpeg|300px|thumb|left|Image of banknote used during communist Albania. Source:]] | ||