Donors, technical assistance and public administration in Kosovo / Mary Venner.

1 Introduction 2 The setting 3 The actors 4 Public finance management 5 The civil service 6 Conclusion Index.

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Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Kosovo as a case study of development assistance; The benchmark; Public finance and the civil service; The theory and practice of development; Theories of development; Development and post-conflict reconstruction; Critiques and alternatives to development; Good enough governance; Development in practice; Aid effectiveness and national interest; The development agenda in Kosovo; Kosovo's institution-building outcomes; Outline of the book; Notes.

1 The settingHow Kosovo became an aid project; Defining the 'liberal peace'; Putting development into UNSCR 1244; The 'blank slate', the 'lost decade' and the 'window of opportunity'; The question of 'ownership'; Kosovo in June 1999; Serb exodus; Albanian political factions; The challenge of civil administration; Political developments since 1999; The first six months (July-December 1999); The Joint Interim Administrative Structure (January 2000 to March 2002); Provisional Institutions for Self Government (February 2002 to February 2008); The crisis of March 2004.

Supervised independence (February 2008 to September 2012)Notes; 2 The actors; The United Nations; The UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK); UN performance; The UN Office of Civil Affairs (Pillar II); Pillar II performance; Relations between the UN and other international actors; The European Union; The Europeanisation objective of EU assistance; Europeanisation in Kosovo; The EU in UNMIK (Pillar IV); EU development assistance: EAR and ECLO; EAR performance; The United States; National interest and US assistance; USAID and PFM; USAID performance; US relations with other actors.

UK Department for International Development (DFID)DFID performance; International financial institutions: The World Bank and the IMF; World Bank assistance; The IMF's role; The Kosovars; International attitudes to Kosovars; Kosovar attitudes to the international Mission; The other Kosovars -- Kosovo Serbs; A difficult partnership; Notes; 3 Public finance management; Donors, public finance and 'liberal peace'; PFM development in Kosovo; Revenue agencies; The Customs Service; Tax administration; Challenges in revenue collection; Kosovarisation of revenue agencies.

Europeanisation of the tax systemRevenue issues after independence; Budget, treasury and payments; Central Fiscal Authority; Banking and payments; Budget planning and expenditure policy; Transfer of financial management functions to the PISG; Fiscal policy under the PISG; Public procurement; Financial Administrative Instruction No 2 1999; The 2004 PISG Procurement Law; 2007 amendments to the law on public procurement; The 2010 Republic of Kosovo Procurement Law; The 2011 Procurement Law; The 2014 amendments to the law; Accounting, audit and financial control.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-199) and index.

The reconstruction of Kosovo after 1999 was one of the largest and most ambitious international interventions in a post-conflict country. The United Nations, other major multinational organisations and many large bilateral aid donors all played a role in restoring stability and establishing governance in the territory. This book looks beyond the apparently united and generally self-congratulatory statements of these international actors to examine what actually happened when they tried to work together in Kosovo to achieve this goal. It considers the interests and motivations, and the strengths and weaknesses of each of the major players and how they contributed to the creation of new institutions in public finance and public sector management.

In English.

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