ACTIVATING SOURCES OF ECONOMIC GROWTH
Kosovo’s developmental path and economic growth have faced long-term specific obstacles. Until the end of the 1950s of the last century, similarly to the period of rule under the first Yugoslavia, it did not undergo any significant economic transformation in terms of industrialisation and infrastructure development.1 Between 1960 and 1988, especially after the economic and constitutional reforms in Yugoslavia (1968-1974), Kosovo consolidated its large territorial and political autonomy, enjoying solid economic growth. This was reflected in the development of its physical and social infrastructure, industrialisation, and the improvement of the overall social fabric. However, at the time of the breakup of the former Yugoslavia, Kosovo’s GDP per capita was less than one-third of the federation’s average. Since the early 1990s, its autonomous institutional independence was forcibly dismantled under the Milosevic regime. This period was marked by massive disinvestment, severe deindustrialisation, a halving of the national output, and devastating war consequences.
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