Economic position of Kosovo in the ex-federation of Yugoslavia between 1945-1990

• Author: Kujtim Millaku
• Position: University of Pristina
• Pages: 142-148

Vol. 1 No. 2

June, 2017

European Journal of Economics, Law and Social Sciences

IIPCCL Publishing, Graz-Austria

ISSN 2519-1284

Acces online at www.iipccl.org

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Economic position of Kosovo in the ex-federation of Yugoslavia between

1945-1990

PhD (C.) Kujtim Millaku

University of Pristina

Abstract

Kosovo did not ever accomplish to bring down its defi ciency in the economic growth

compared to the Yugoslav average. At the times when other republics of the federation

had taken an impetus in the economic development, Kosovo had to take loans so as to give

way to plentiful economic problems. The interest and the concentration of the investors in

Kosovo could unswervingly been measured with the position that Kosovo had within the

Yugoslavian federation. As such, the largest investments took place when Kosovo went further

by establishing its bodies within the Yugoslavian federation as its constituent component.

However, the investments that took place following the 60s were not su cient to match

the development progress of other Federation Republics. The economic structure started to

change: the growing industry started to take the place of agriculture. Yugoslavia had been

collecting high amounts of loans from the Eastern and Western countries and by the end of

the 80s they reached 20 billion dollars. Due to that, the country economy was aggravated at

large extend.

Keywords: Kosovo, Yugoslavia, economy, exploitation, collapse.

Introduction

Economic development of a country starts with the human, natural and technical

fundamentals meaning factories. A er World War II, Kosovo consisted of the fi rst

two above mentioned fundamentals, but failed the third fundamental.

The economical situation of Albanians following the end of the war deteriorated

further as bulky military troops that operated in the area le their negative impact on

the burden of the domestic population. The Yugoslavian army applied a compulsory

method in order to collect and conquer agricultural and livestock products which

were the main living source of the Albanian population. On the other hand, the arrival

of Serb and Montenegrin colonists burdened even more the already weak economic

condition of authentic Albanian population.

However, due to low employment rates in the industry or in other areas of non-

agricultural employment as well as di culties in migration, most of the population

lived in villages in very severe conditions despite the fact that the villagers themselves

were the largest contributors the country's economy. Just a small portion of the

population lived in the cities.

At this period, being mainly agricultural region and with fairly outdated farming

machinery, Kosovo remained amongst the less economically developed regions, with

an undeveloped industry yet.

The waste majority of the population in Kosovo was engaged in agriculture and