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The agriculture sector is one of the most important sectors of the Albanian economy. The recent official data of the GDP in the country, show that agriculture sector represents 20% of the GDP and demonstrates steady growth. One of the reasons of the growth is the support policy designed by the government and the instruments chosen for the implementation of the agriculture policies. Since 2007, a new approach is being used to support the agriculture sector, applying schemes to farmers and agro-businesses to facilitate the investments and the upgrading of the farms. Since then, the sector has known steady increase, being the main contributor to the national growth. The macro and micro data provided by the official statistics show that main economic indicators have positive results, which drive us to the findings that the national schemes allocated by the government each year since 2007, have an impact to the growth and the strengthening of the agriculture sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The statistical literacy for decision making represent one of the multiple functions for which this discipline exists and progresses. When decision makers think of a specified amount to spend to fight poverty, they first have to think about whether the program for which the money will be spent will reduce poverty in reality. Otherwise, it would be a waste of time and resources while poverty would remain the same. How do we find out if we achieved this goal? When policies aimed at certain support group / strata of population to strengthen their economic growth, increasing their prosperity, how can we judge whether they have succeeded? Economic aid is a social policy that the government applies to a certain stratum of the population below a certain level of poverty. How can we assess if this policy will be effective in helping the poor? By using theories already discovered and widely accepted, as well as official statistical data, this paper will attempt to help with the orientation of the use of statistics in decision making. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]