Forgotten status of many: Kosovo's economy under the UN and the EU administration

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After eight years of the United Nations (UN) administration, Kosovo again is returned to the international centre of attention - this time about her future political status. The document presented by the UN Special Envoy for Kosovo, Martti Ahtisaari, proposed an ambiguous status settlement that is portrayed and understood as a supervised independence. Whatever expectations from political perspective will be, that is of secondary importance for this paper - the aim is in Kosovo's aggregate uncertainty about her economic sustainability, namely to investigate the relationship between fragile institutions, poor governance and weak economic performance. With a foreign aid since the second half of 1999 amounting to €22 billion, Kosovo still has massive unemployment and widespread poverty. How the UN's largest experiment ever undertaken, involving considerable resources and long time, left the economy in such a poor state?

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Ordnungspolitische Diskurse ; No. 2007-08

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft
• Subject: Kosovo ; UNMIK ; Provisional Institutions of Self-government ; poverty ; political status settlement

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Mulaj, Isa
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): OrdnungsPolitisches Portal (OPO)
• (where): s.l.
• (when): 2007

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/55438
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET