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  Serbia and Montenegro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The large Albanian population is chiefly concentrated in Kosovo, with smaller populations in the Preševo and Bujanovac municipalities in Central Serbia, and in the south-east of Montenegro (Ulcinj municipality).
Mismanagement of the economy, an extended period of economic sanctions, and the damage to Yugoslavia's infrastructure and industry caused by the Kosovo War have left the economy only half the size it was in 1990.
Serbia, and in particular the valley of the Morava is often described as "the crossroads between the East and the West" - one of the primary reasons for its turbulent history.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Serbia_and_Montenegro   (1432 words)

  
 Serbia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Serbia’s championship of Pan-Slavism in the Balkans engendered bitter rivalry with Bulgaria and Austria-Hungary.
Serbia’s predominant position in the new kingdom was a major cause for unrest in Croatia and Macedonia in the period between World Wars I and II.
The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, established in 1992 by Serbia and Montenegro, was thoroughly dominated by Serbia, a situation that led by the end of the decade to a strong movement in Montenegro for increased autonomy or independence.
www.bartleby.com /65/se/Serbia.html   (2328 words)

  
 Serbia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Serbia is bounded by Croatia (northwest), Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro (west), Albania (southwest), Macedonia (south), Bulgaria and Romania (east), and Hungary (north).
Serbia is mostly mountainous, being ringed by the Dinaric Alps on the west, the Sar Mountains and the North Albanian Alps (Prokletije) on the south, and the Balkan and Carpathian mountains on the east.
In central Serbia are the hills of the Sumadija ("forested area"), and in the north are the low-lying plains of Vojvodina, where the Danube River is joined by two of its major tributaries, the Sava and Tisa rivers.
www.psc.ac.yu /eng/text/serbia_brit.html   (1363 words)

  
 Economy of Serbia and Montenegro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The economy of Serbia and Montenegro entered a prolonged decline in 1989.
GDP was nowhere near its 1991 level, but the NATO bombing in 1999 of the basic infrastructure of the country and many factories, as well as a renewed embargo caused a further huge drop in GDP in relation to the 1991 level.
Furthermore, international investment is still lagging in Serbia and Montenegro (SaM), as a result of both domestic and international investment climates.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Economy_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro   (610 words)

  
 Serbia and Montenegro on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Serbia and Montenegro is bordered by the Adriatic Sea, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Croatia in the west, Hungary in the north, Romania and Bulgaria in the east, and Macedonia and Albania in the south.
The northeast, in Serbia, is part of the fertile Danubian plain and is traversed by the Danube and its tributaries—the Drava, the Sava, the Morava, the Timok, and the Tisza (Serbian Tisa).
Serbia and Montenegro declared the establishment of a new Yugoslavian federation (the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) in 1992, but the EC (and later the United Nations) announced that the new government could not claim the international rights and duties of the former Yugoslavia, because those rights and obligations had devolved onto the different republics.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/SerbMont_Economy.asp   (2558 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Serbia and Montenegro
Serbia and Montenegro is name of the union of Serbia and Montenegro, a loose commonwealth in Europe that is the descendant of the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Serbia and Montenegro, the remaining federal states of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, came to an agreement only to cooperate in some political fields (e.g.
Serbia, and in particular the valley of Morava is often described as "the crossroad between the East and the West", which is one of primary reasons for its turbulent history.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Serbia_and_Montenegro   (438 words)

  
 Serbia: Economy
Serbia proper has extensive vineyards and is one of Europe's major regions for fruit growing (notably plums).
Mining and manufacturing are the largest contributors to the economy; manufactures include steel, iron, transport vehicles, and plastics.
Serbia's mineral wealth includes coal and lignite, copper, gold, antimony, marble, and millstone.
www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0861024.html   (106 words)

  
 Second Lens Analysis: Serbia's Economy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Serbia's economy throughout the 1990s fluctuated between crisis and moderate instability.
In short, almost everyone in Serbia, except criminals and the Milosevic elite, saw their standard of living decline in the 1990s; however, this economic situation only made the regime more important in the daily lives of individuals.
This fed a national culture of victimization, which the regime manipulated effectively by blaming Serbia's economic catastrophe entirely on the sanctions, which in turn allowed both the regime and society to focus on perseverance in the face of outside hostility instead of what they could do to improve their own economic lot.
www.wwnorton.com /internal/lenses/print/cs_ks_economy.htm   (878 words)

  
 Economy | Serbianna.com
To be competitive, Prokopijevic says that Serbia has to slash taxes and number of taxable items and then reduce tariffs that are twice the size the average in the EU.
Serbia is indeed on the road to reduction of poverty.
Sustaining the success in economic reforms in Serbia also depends on the outcome of the status talks on the Serbian Province of Kosovo that is currently administered by the UN.
www.serbianna.com /economy/002.html   (1061 words)

  
 Embassy of Serbia and Montenegro   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
They began to stabilize and transform the economy by tightening macro-economic policies and recommencing market-oriented structural reforms, combining their own efforts and with the support of the international community and international financial organizations.
Followed by growth of the economy of about 5% per annum, and changing ownership structure due to privatization, Serbia and Montenegro is recognized as a true growing market economy.
Serbia and Montenegro has the lowest corporate tax rate in the region, the highest literacy in English language in Central and SEE, as well as the most competitive labor costs.
www.yuembusa.org /eng/media/inside.php?show_cat=11   (596 words)

  
 New Serbia's Old Economy
It is a sad testimony to the state of Serbia's finances that a projected rate of inflation of 35% for 2001 is considered to be a major achievement.
Serbia is strategically located, a large market, with a history of capitalism, an educated workforce, and a rich export culture and history.
Serbia needs unilateral transfers by Serbian workers in the European Union, open markets to its goods and services, and an actual and effective integration of Serbia into the continent's free trade zone.
samvak.tripod.com /pp82.html   (823 words)

  
 SERBIA: IMF OFFERS BITTER PILL TO HEAL ECONOMY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The IMF has rolled out a raft of tough demands it requires Serbia to meet in order for a three-year credit arrangement that expires next week to be extended to the end of the year.
But in order for Serbia to qualify for the last installment, and to extend the arrangement, the IMF has demanded rigorous cuts in public spending, drastic reduction of the foreign trade deficit, reform of the pension system and layoffs in public firms.
It has earmarked 184 million euros for the country in 2005, targeted at helping create a free-market economy, sustainable economic recovery and structural reforms, as well measures to stabilise the country by developing government institutions and legislation aimed at reinforcing democracy and the rule of law, human rights, civil society and the media.
www.adnki.com /index_2Level.php?cat=Politics&loid=8.0.164610217&par=0   (586 words)

  
 Nonviolent Revolution and the Transition to Democracy in Serbia: Special Reports: Publications: U.S. Institute of Peace
Serbia's opposition was also often bitterly divided over its own strategy and tactics, its leadership seemingly more bent on destroying one another politically than in promoting democracy.
In Serbia, this means that support must continue to be forthcoming for groups that helped create the revolution in the first place, especially because many representatives of the old regime--such as Serbian president Milan Milutinovic, indicted alongside Milosevic by the ICTY, and a host of police and army personnel with questionable pasts--remain in place.
As Serbia attempts to re-establish its legal and judicial systems, both of which were badly ravaged by Milosevic, the engagement of civic groups in these endeavors can yield significant advantages.
www.usip.org /pubs/specialreports/sr72.html   (7120 words)

  
 TAP: Web Feature: Serbia's Lesson. by Laura Rozen. March 14, 2003.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Serbia is a place where smuggling of cigarettes, drugs, guns and humans has managed to flourish.
For many in Serbia, it is a fact of life that these criminal networks are where real power resides -- and that the institutions of democratic government are, in many ways, only a pretense.
While the power and influence of the networks are not secret, their exact chains of command, operating procedures and involvement in past war crimes have been exposed only recently, in detailed testimony by protected witnesses at Milosevic's trial in the Hague.
www.prospect.org /webfeatures/2003/03/rozen-l-03-14.html   (920 words)

  
 Serbia's deficit 4.5 billions?
The reason for serious concern is that the trend of rising of the deficit is being continued.
According to officials form the Chamber of Economy of Serbia the deficit will be for 80 percents higher that the export realized at the same time.
Serbia has positive goods exchange balance with Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina only.
www.invest-in-serbia.com /archive/2003/2003_12/2003_12_16_02.htm   (98 words)

  
 Serbia and Montenegro Flag, Serbia and Montenegro History, Culture of Serbia and Montenegro, Economy of Serbia and ...
Serbia and Montenegro Flag, Serbia and Montenegro History, Culture of Serbia and Montenegro, Economy of Serbia and Montenegro, History of Serbia and Montenegro
A large percentage of Serbia and Montenegro's population is still engaged in agriculture.
The smaller republic of Montenegro severed its economy from federal control and from Serbia during the MILOSEVIC era and continues to maintain its own central bank, uses the euro instead of the Yugoslav dinar as official currency, collects customs tariffs, and manages its own budget.
www.mapsofworld.com /country-profile/serbia-and-montenegro1.html   (771 words)

  
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Economy The current economy in Serbia-Montenegro is an Open Market with goods and services being trade inside and outside the country.
The current state of the economy is during the Milosevisc era of mismanagement, economic sanctions and damage to the infrastructure and the war in Kosovo left the country very unstable.
The economy is being helped with funds from the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
www.csulb.edu /~martinez/CSULB_MUN_FARWEST_DOCS/Serbia-Montenegro/SerbiaMontenegro.CountryProfile.doc   (487 words)

  
 Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Serbia: A Political Economy View   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
However, once Miloševic was removed from office, the outward veneer of stability in Serbia crumbled and citizens were forced to face the legacy that Miloševic had left behind.
Serbia was able to engage in substantial economic reforms while avoiding the transition-economy policy mistakes that befell Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union in the early 1990s.
Although institutions are weak and economic policy is guided by interest group politics, the expansion of small businesses governed by rule of law could facilitate the development of a capitalist economy in Serbia.
www.cipe.org /publications/fs/articles/052505.htm   (260 words)

  
 Serbian dinar - Psychology Central
The Serbian dinar is the official currency of Serbia, one of the two republics that comprise Serbia-Montenegro.
Image:500000000000 dinars.jpg Hyperinflation occurred in Serbia in 1993 due to the government's longstanding policy of printing money to finance its budget deficit, even so, the Slobodan Milošević government claimed that the hyperinflation was caused by international sanctions.
The National Bank of Serbia is the central bank of Serbia.
psychcentral.com /psypsych/Serbian_dinar   (924 words)

  
 Economy (from Serbia and Montenegro) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The Balkan country of Serbia and Montenegro is a federation of two related republics: Serbia, which includes the provinces of Vojvodina and Kosovo, and Montenegro.
The country of Serbia and Montenegro (formerly Yugoslavia) is a union of two republics.
Bosnia and Herzegovina is bounded on the north, west, and south by Croatia, on the southwest by the Adriatic Sea, and on the east by Serbia and Montenegro.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-42933?tocId=42933   (866 words)

  
 Serbia Info News / A Reform Agenda of Serbia
The Government of Serbia is in this document presenting its agenda for reform and its needs for international support for the year 2001.
The economy of Serbia has been disastrously distorted and destroyed by ten years of turmoil following the dissolution of SFRY.
Privatisation of state and socially owned enterprises is essential for restoring competitiveness to the economy, and is starting with the targeting of the 28 most efficient state companies for early privatisation.
www.serbia-info.com /news/2001-06/28/24163.html   (888 words)

  
 Serbia Economy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
From 1946 to 1991 Serbia was part of a larger federal state of Yugoslavia, which consisted of four...
Serbia's economy throughout the 1990s fluctuated between crisis and...
MILOSEVIC-era mismanagement of the economy, an extended period of economic sanctions, and...
www.freeserbia.org /serbia-economy.html   (234 words)

  
 Maps
Serbia and Montenegro cover 102,350 square kilometers combined, with terrain ranging from mountainous in the southeast, to plains in the north.
The capital of Serbia and Montenegro is Belgrade, which doubles as the capital of Serbia, while Podgorica is the capital of Montenegro.
The major religions of Serbia and Montenegro are Orthodox (65%), Muslim (19%), Roman Catholic (4%), and Protestant (1%).
www.unc.edu /~kgrim/SerbiaGroupSite/maps.html   (153 words)

  
 CER | New Serbia's Old Economy
It is a sad testimony to the state of Serbia's finances that a projected rate of inflation of 35 per cent for 2001 is considered to be a major achievement.
Serbia's physical infrastructure alone sustained damage estimated at USD 4 billion.
What Serbia has instead is a protectionist European Union that adamantly refuses to open its borders to labor and goods from the Balkans.
www.ce-review.org /01/21/vaknin21.html   (825 words)

  
 Serbia Economy
The economy of Yugoslavia entered a prolonged decline in 1998.
A vigorous team of economic reformers has worked to tame inflation and rationalize the Serbia and Montenegro economy.
Furthermore, international investment is still lagging in Serbia and Montenegro, as a result of both domestic and international investment climates.
www.multied.com /NationbyNation/Serbia/Economy.html   (316 words)

  
 Serbia Today, 97-04-23
In the Chamber of Economy of Serbia, the agreement was signed yesterday on the commodities credit line between Electrical Administration of Serbia and the "Skoda" Concern.
It was proposed to initiate faster integration of Serbia in the activities of the work community of the Danube river basin countries and instigate economic, educational, scientific and cultural cooperation with the countries in the region.
Power is one of the corner stones of the development of Serbia, said Marjanovic, and underlined that this is an extremely important step in its development and a concrete example of implementation of the reforms in our country.
www.hri.org /news/agencies/serb/1997/97-04-23.serb.html   (1383 words)

  
 Serbia: Democracy or Counter-revolution?
If a genuine Leninist party existed in Serbia, it would be possible for the workers to put themselves at the head of the movement to transform society, drawing behind them the mass of the middle class and students.
Serbia's rulers would rather use western taxpayers and investors to pay for the country's imports: hence their overtures to the IMF.
A real workers' democracy in Serbia, on the lines of Russia in 1917, would be a beacon to all the peoples of the former Yugoslavia, to the rest of the Balkans, to Russia, Europe and the world.
www.marxist.com /Europe/Serbia.html   (4642 words)

  
 Embassy of Serbia and Montenegro   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
On February 4, 2003 the Yugoslav parliament adopted the Constitutional Charter of the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro, marking the beginning of a new reformed state, replacing the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Serbia and Montenegro is a country in dynamic transition in all respects, rightfully seeking its place in the family of free nations.
After a difficult decade, Serbia and Montenegro is on its road to the European Union, strengthening its relationship with the United States and building its ties across the Atlantic.
www.yuembusa.org /eng/media/index.php?show_cat=1   (362 words)

  
 Serbia and Montenegro Economy - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, ...
Output in Serbia and Montenegro dropped by half in 1992-93.
The breakup of many of the trade links, the sharp drop in output as industrial plants lost suppliers and markets, and the destruction of physical assets in the fighting all have contributed to the economic difficulties of the republics.
One singular factor in the economic situation of Serbia is the continuation in office of a government that is primarily interested in political and military mastery, not economic reform.
www.photius.com /wfb1999/serbia_and_montenegro/serbia_and_montenegro_economy.html   (473 words)

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