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KOSOVO, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA (Serbia and Montenegro)(Kosovo)

Economic and Social Reforms for Peace and Reconciliation

Prepared by the World Bank

February 1, 2001


This document can be downloaded as one large file (156 pages, pdf, 660 KB)

or in separate parts:

VOLUME I

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT and INTRODUCTION (7 pages, pdf, 26 KB)

CHAPTER 1: ECONOMIC BACKGROUND (4 pages, pdf, 20 KB)

CHAPTER 2: KEY CHALLENGES: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY (6 pages, pdf, 35 KB)

a. The shape of the eventual political settlement
b. Local participation in policies and decisions
c. The nostalgia for 1989
d. Institutions

CHAPTER 3: POLICY PRIORITIES AND UNMIK RESPONSE (32 pages, pdf, 145 KB)

a. Budget and fiscal structures
b. Trade regime and customs administration
c. Currency and banking system
d. Conditions for private market growth
e. Education
f. Health
g. Social protection
h. Summary of recommended short-term actions (to mid-2001)
i. Summary of recommended medium-term actions


VOLUME II

CHAPTER 1: BUDGET AND FISCAL STRUCTURES (15 pages, pdf, 77 KB)

a. Fiscal developments
b. Budgetary systems
c. Challenges to fiscal performance
d. Fiscal devolution

CHAPTER 2: EXTERNAL TRADE AND CUSTOMS (12 pages, pdf, 61 KB)

a. Introduction
b. Structural features of the trade regime
c. Policy aspects of the trade regime: coverage and taxation
d. Implications of the trade regime for nascent exports
e. Implementation
f. Recommendations

CHAPTER 3: THE BANKING SECTOR (21 pages, pdf, 96 KB)

a. Background
b. A strategy for banking sector development
c. Next steps to restore financial intermediation: institutional and market development
d. Medium-term challenges despite near-term progress
e. Reform of the payments system

CHAPTER 4: STIMULATING PRIVATE ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT (16 pages, pdf, 70 KB)

a. Background
b. Facilitating private sector development
c. Converting public enterprises to private ownership

CHAPTER 5: EDUCATION (16 pages, pdf, 69 KB)

a. Introduction
b. Key sector priorities
c. Budget analysis 2000

CHAPTER 6: HEALTH (13 pages, pdf, 58 KB)

a. Background
b. The pre-conflict situation
c. Current situation
d. Key policy issues
e. Recommended short-term actions (to end-2000)
f. Recommended medium-term actions

CHAPTER 7: SOCIAL PROTECTION (14 pages, pdf, 63 KB)

a. Introduction
b. Key policy issues
c. Summary of recommended short-term actions (to mid-2001)
d. Summary of recommended medium-term actions


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