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Post by Fender on Oct 19, 2007 11:03:48 GMT -5
"UNMIK mission in Kosovo – failure" 19 October 2007 | 15:14 | Source: Tanjug VIENNA -- The UN administration in Kosovo has failed, Vienna Institute for Comparative Economic Studies expert Vladimir Gligorov says.
Gligorov bases his findings on the fact that UNMIK has not provided economic prospects for the people living in that province.
Kosovo is officially proud of the economic growth of three percent it achieved last year, a figure economists can but laugh at, Vienna daily Die Presse quotes the expert.
The international presence has represented a disaster for Kosovo's economy, Gligorov underlined.
He explained that UNMIK had failed to create economic prospects for the local inhabitants, and underscored that the negotiations on Kosovo's future status had to address the province's economy.
Gligorov said that the situation in Kosovo "could not get any worse than it was right now," pointing to the fact that the unemployment rate was somewhere between 35 and 40 percent, that the number of jobless people increased by the year, and that transactions of ethnic Albanians living abroad represented 20 percent, if not more, of the GDP.
Namely, the remittances and the assistance from abroad make at least 40 percent of the GDP, he explained.
Specifying that Kosovo's debt was huge and that there was a major disparity between import, at EUR 1.3bn and export, worth EUR 79mn, Gligorov said the international administration has even failed to make use of the province's mineral resources.
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Post by Novi Pazar on Oct 21, 2007 21:17:38 GMT -5
"Namely, the remittances and the assistance from abroad make at least 40 percent of the GDP, he explained."
You got to be kidding me!.
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Post by kasso on Oct 22, 2007 4:40:19 GMT -5
Yeah, and what about Serbia? Do you they receive money from the Serbian diaspora? Or do we [the Albanian diaspora] take a much more responsiblity for our country or is it because we are a larger diaspora?
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Post by radovic on Oct 22, 2007 10:23:11 GMT -5
Yeah, and what about Serbia? Do you they receive money from the Serbian diaspora? Or do we [the Albanian diaspora] take a much more responsiblity for our country or is it because we are a larger diaspora? Diaspora's tend to send proportionally the same amount of money to their compatriots back home. If such a huge level exists it is for the following reaons: - Kosovo is several times poorer then Serbia. - Proportionally speaking the Kosovo diaspora is larger then that of Serbia.
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