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Originally Posted by Ironduke
Garry, figures of 70% unemployment in Kosovo by the mid-90's are almost universally accepted, and the mass emigration from Kosovo as a result of repression and unemployment speaks for itself. Hundreds of thousands of Kosovars left the country to work abroad, unable to find work at home.
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Hi Ironduke, I know little on Kosovo issue. Just went out to google and come to understanding that this area was damn poor prior to conflict with 18% of population illiterate!!! and it was subsidized 90% from Yugoslavian budget... and most of population live in rural area (I don't state this.... this what I read here
Tomislav Popovic, Kosovo: economic, social and demographic causes of the crisis )
I did google and did not find 70%.... but still don't make any conslusions (googling is just part of the information).... to me 70% looks like too big for rural area where people are usually selfemployed. Kosovo is very agricultural area so unemployement is something very hard to access there....
Anyway... after reading that report I realize that Colonel might have BIG point about economic sustainability of that state