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''...THE CONSULTANT WILL FIX IT...''

Bytyqi, Endrit LU (2019) MIDM19 20191
LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management
Department of Human Geography
Abstract
Since the end of the 1999 war, Kosovo has received high flows of development assistance, thus becoming among the top beneficiaries per capita worldwide. The EU is the largest donor to Kosovo that aims to support the country’s development as well as the EU accession process. Despite the fact that development must be, primarily, autonomous, i.e. which cannot be imposed, but rather must come from within, no one in Kosovo discusses the influence of externally driven development actions through assistance on the country’s incentives for autonomous development. In this spirit, the study tries to explain how EU development assistance affects the Government of Kosovo’s incentives for autonomous development. The study finds that, first, the EU... (More)
Since the end of the 1999 war, Kosovo has received high flows of development assistance, thus becoming among the top beneficiaries per capita worldwide. The EU is the largest donor to Kosovo that aims to support the country’s development as well as the EU accession process. Despite the fact that development must be, primarily, autonomous, i.e. which cannot be imposed, but rather must come from within, no one in Kosovo discusses the influence of externally driven development actions through assistance on the country’s incentives for autonomous development. In this spirit, the study tries to explain how EU development assistance affects the Government of Kosovo’s incentives for autonomous development. The study finds that, first, the EU applies a direct approach, service-buying, and high reliance of the assistance in external experts; whereas, second, the Government of Kosovo’s ministries lack the motivation to engage and capacities to absorb the assistance. As a result, the EU assistance ends up doing the work for ministries instead of building their capacities for self-development, thus turning into a ‘safety net’ for recipients by covering the consequences of their inaction. These two problems constrain the country’s incentives for autonomous development. (Less)
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author
Bytyqi, Endrit LU
supervisor
organization
course
MIDM19 20191
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
development assistance, autonomous development, incentives, EU, Kosovo
language
English
id
8976041
date added to LUP
2019-10-17 14:10:05
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2019-10-17 14:10:05
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  abstract     = {{Since the end of the 1999 war, Kosovo has received high flows of development assistance, thus becoming among the top beneficiaries per capita worldwide. The EU is the largest donor to Kosovo that aims to support the country’s development as well as the EU accession process. Despite the fact that development must be, primarily, autonomous, i.e. which cannot be imposed, but rather must come from within, no one in Kosovo discusses the influence of externally driven development actions through assistance on the country’s incentives for autonomous development. In this spirit, the study tries to explain how EU development assistance affects the Government of Kosovo’s incentives for autonomous development. The study finds that, first, the EU applies a direct approach, service-buying, and high reliance of the assistance in external experts; whereas, second, the Government of Kosovo’s ministries lack the motivation to engage and capacities to absorb the assistance. As a result, the EU assistance ends up doing the work for ministries instead of building their capacities for self-development, thus turning into a ‘safety net’ for recipients by covering the consequences of their inaction. These two problems constrain the country’s incentives for autonomous development.}},
  author       = {{Bytyqi, Endrit}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{''...THE CONSULTANT WILL FIX IT...''}},
  year         = {{2019}},
}