[PEN-L:6251] Re: Query Re: partition?

["Michael Hoover" <hoov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Does anyone know enough about Serbia toanswer this question.
> Would Serbia be a viable political and economic unit without Kosovo?
> Carrol

I'm sure that I don't know enough but:

Kosovo has always been the poorest region in Yugoslavia despite having
considerable mineral and fuel reserves...30 years of federal economic
assistance and higher-than-average investment did not change this
situation...emphasis remained on traditional, labor-intensive, low-
wage production such as agriculture, handicrafts, and textiles...
Slovenia had always objected to federal policies such as the Fund for
Underdeveloped Regions intended to lessen rgional disparities and
halted its contribution in 1990...Croatia followed suit shortly
thereafter...Michael Hoover