Word: serbia
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...York last September, and the next performances are scheduled for April in Washington and San Jose. The finale is to take place next year in Belgrade, capital of Yugoslavia and Serb cultural center. As Dimic explains, the idea is to see if “those who stayed in Serbia can recognize someone of their...
...abandoning a high-flying executive lifestyle in Paris in exchange for an insecure, meagerly paid job in one of Europe's poorest countries. Yet this is exactly what Bozidar Djelic, a partner with consultancy McKinsey & Company, did when he accepted an offer to become Finance Minister in post-Milosevic Serbia. "I did not hesitate for a moment," Djelic recalls from his modest office in downtown Belgrade. "I have no doubt that this government can pull the country back on its feet...
...After four lost wars and years of economic sanctions, Serbia needs all the help it can get. During Milosevic's rule, hundreds of thousands of bright, gifted young Serbs fled the war and the poverty to start a new life somewhere else. Djelic is one of the few who has come back. Though he looks a bit like an overgrown schoolboy in a business suit, he has had a brilliant career in France and the United States. After graduating as a top student from France's élite Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, he collected two M.B.A.s from Harvard...
...hope it will be a success," Djelic says of the reform movement in his own country. "But reforming Serbia is different from anything that's been done so far. So the transition plan will be tailor-made to our specific needs." Selling a market economy to Serbs may be tough. After only a few weeks in the job, Djelic is already under pressure from angry state factory workers demanding back pay and higher wages. "The former regime used to print money to pay the workers, and it led to one of the world's highest inflation rates," Djelic says...
...Eventually, I believe he will. But first he'll be tried in Serbia for breaking Serbian law, before going to The Hague for breaking international law. Although he could still face a number of even more serious charges in Serbia, the state has assembled some serious evidence on these corruption charges and they want to start the process of trying Milosevic. It's no coincidence, of course, that the arrest was timed to meet a U.S. deadline to put Milosevic behind bars if Serbia is to receive economic aid. And once he's behind bars on corruption charges, there...