http://www.metafilter.com/tags/jeremyharding Posts tagged with 'jeremyharding' at MetaFilter. Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:06:13 -0800 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:06:13 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/73324/Saved%2Dand%2DDepoliticised%2Dat%2DOne%2DStroke <a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n14/hard01_.html">"The most startling features of Kosovo, now that the cleansing of the Serbian minority is on hold, are the poverty of the province ... and the pitiful economy that keeps it locked in."</a> <blockquote>Once a supplier of farm produce to other parts of Yugoslavia, Kosovo now brings in almost all its food, along with fuel and building materials. Its leading ‘export’ is scrap metal, a harvest of rundown plant from the Milosevic era and Nato bomb damage. Kosovo’s trade gap is dramatic: imports account for 90 per cent of legal cross-border trade ... The ambiguous status of the territory has been a large disincentive to foreign investors. Who can tell where their capital will be tied up or their taxes levied ten years from now? In a largely autonomous part of Serbia? A protectorate run by a handful of jaded international bodies? Or Europe’s latest sovereign state?</blockquote> tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.73324 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:06:13 -0800 jeremyharding kosovo lrb serbia un geoff.