Bosnien und Herzegowina und die „Dayton-Economy“
Bosnia and Herzegovina and the “Dayton Economy”

Summary/Abstract: The demonstrations in early February 2014 in more than 20 towns across Bosnia and Herzegovina were not ethnically motivated. Rather, they represented a desperate outburst. Ordinary citizens forcefully expressed their rising unwillingness to further tolerate the stagnation of the economy and thus of living standards on a level nearly equal to what was achieved with extensive financial support from the International Community in the very first years after the end of the war and the Dayton Accord in 1995. The political construct of an ethnically divided state has its mirroring impact on the complicated economic order which blocks any attempts to achieve a sound economic recovery of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The negative features characterizing the Bosnian economy are numerous. They include stagnant and even decreasing industrial production, an overdimensioned and costly bureaucracy, constant high deficits in external trade, high unemployment accompanied by a partly compensating informal economic sector and weak social security structures.

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