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Unemployment rate

According to the CIA factbook, the Kosovo unemployment rate is 16.6% (2009 est.).

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/kv.html

There were two sources for unemployment rate of 40-50%.

"Unemployment remains pervasive, at around 40-50% of the labour force."

• First source is obsolete.

http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/publications/enlargement_papers/2005/elp26en.pdf

"The address you used has either changed or is obsolete"

• Second source has older information comparing with the CIA factbook. It's from 2006.

http://www.eciks.org/english/lajme.php?action=total_news&main_id=386

"4.05.2006, May finds Kosovo with 50% unemployed"

Gaston28 (talk) 12:42, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

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2010 sources seem to report unemployment rates between 40 and 60 percent. The CIA Factbook itself as of October 2010 reports 40% unemployment in the prose of the "Economy" section. I believe the "2009 estimate" is a copy-paste error from when the Kosovo article was first created, taking over the value from Serbia for lack of a reliable value for Kosovo. The unemployment rate for Serbia is given by the CIA Factbook as "16.6% (October 2009 est.)" --dab (𒁳) 12:30, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

I was going to make Dbachmann's point about the CIA factbook. I'm happy for the old sources to be discarded, if you want to; I left them in because it seemed arrogant to change virtually everything (although I think that is essentially what needs to happen in this article).

If one walks around Pristina and looks at the full cafe-bars everywhere it is very difficult to believe that the "true" unemployment rate is 40%. But where social security benefits are so low that one has to find some extra money in order to survive, it is very hard to define a "true" unemployment rate. The waiters in the cafe-bars may be informally employed, but does one count a Roma who washes windscreens at traffic lights as being in "informal (self-)employment? To be honest, I don't know. --Markd999 (talk) 17:09, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

Structure of article

This needs a lot of work. The fact that a power company has a customer care centre does not have great importance for its economy. The fact that Porsches are sold in Kosovo (so are more or less every other sort of car, has even less. I suggest that editors look at IMF Staff Reports.--Markd999 (talk) 21:02, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

Natural Resources

I propose to shorten this section, while keeping the sub-headings. Extraction of any minerals carries environmental costs, which of course are greater in densely populated areas. Even with the best possible technology available today, it is difficult to see how Kosovo could increase lignite-based electricity-generation without breaking the 20:20:20 EU-compatible climate change obligations. Moreover, mineral extraction typically generates relatively low employment and of course only a proportion of this profit goes to the state or local community. The value of minerals beneath Kosovo's surface (which may be much greater than stated in the article) may make Kosovars think that they are potentially rich, but this needs to be treated with some scepticism. The costs in human health terms (and to the economy, even if the state is not shouldering the costs directly) of pollution from the Trepca lead mines, the KEK plants at Obilic, Ferronikeli, and the Sharrchem cement factory at Hani i Elezit are certainly substantial; in richer areas of Europe the argument would not be whether to divide Mitrovica but whether to evacuate it. (Oddly enough, and it is a searing indictment on both capitalist and communist operators of Trepca, a far more environmentally friendly way of dealing with potential lead pollution was available even in 1804. The London Lead Company dealt with the problems of heavy metal poisoning in its mines in Northumberland by building a very large chimney. Since it could not build it six miles high, it built it six miles underground, with a normal chimney at the outlet. Most of the lead emitted crystallised in the chimney and was then collected) --Markd999 (talk) 20:54, 20 September 2012 (UTC)

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Road infrastructure in Serbia is less developed than in Kosovo? Really???

Serbia has an adequate road infrastracture, while Kosovo's road network is horible! Serbia even has more kilometers of highways than Kosovo has paved roads, so I'm interested in how Serbian road infrastructure is less developed than Kosovo's???

And the second conclusion is just illogical - "... offers an alternative from the EU to the routes through Serbia or Montenegro". How on Earth do you imagine that someone from EU goes through Kosovo by avoiding going through Serbia or Montenegro? Do you even have a map??? You can go from Europe to Greece through Serbia-Macedonia, Romania-Bulgaria and Montenegro-Albania; you can go from Europe to Asia through Serbia-Macedonia-Greece, or Serbia-Bulgaria, or Romania-Bulgaria. Neither of this routes includes Kosovo, because Kosovo is on the European road periphery. So, how can Kosovo be alternative for any road transportation if all possible routes through Kosovo require massive detour from the main roads??? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.225.72.56 (talk) 07:43, 10 October 2017 (UTC)

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• From Drenas: "DFF - Ferronikeli". EBRD. 29 July 2019.
• From Industry of Kosovo: "DFF - Ferronikeli". EBRD. 29 Jul 2019.

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