TIRANA, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- Around 73 percent of Albanians think Albania's economic situation has worsened compared to four years ago, a survey published by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) showed Wednesday.
However, despite being pessimistic about the economic situation, 77 percent of respondents were optimistic that their children would have a better life than them.
EBRD informed that the survey was based on 1,377 interviews held in 2016.
The survey showed that half of Albanian respondents were unhappy with the health care offered by the state through a series of expensive public-private partnerships.
Actually, 56 percent of Albanians expressed readiness to pay higher taxes if this would actually improve the quality of health care.
In terms of the political situation, 70 percent of respondents think that the political situation has worsened compared to four years ago, while 63 percent of respondents are unhappy with the judicial system, the survey showed.
A surprising finding of this survey was that only half of the respondents preferred a democracy and a market economy while 31 percent of them would prefer a planned economy or authoritarian regime.