Publication: Bosnia and Herzegovina : Post-Conflict Reconstruction and the Transition to a Market Economy, An OED Evaluation of World Bank Support
Date
2004-09
ISSN
Published
2004-09
Author(s)
Operations Evaluation Department
Abstract
Following three years of war in Bosnia
and Herzegovina (BiH), during which over 10 percent of the
population were killed or wounded, and over half of the
population displaced, a peace agreement, the Dayton Accords
(DA), was negotiated in November 1995. The DA acknowledged
the bitter ethnic divides that led to war by establishing a
government structure with a weak central State; the
ethnically based Entities (the Federation of Bosnia and
Herzegovina and the Republika Srpska) retained political,
military, and economic authority. The DA also provided for a
strong international police and military presence and an
international overseer-the Office of the High Representative
(OHR). Although this structure was a necessary political
compromise at the time of the DA, it has presented difficult
challenges to the Bank as well as other donors.
Citation
“Operations Evaluation Department. 2004. Bosnia and Herzegovina : Post-Conflict Reconstruction and the Transition to a Market Economy, An OED Evaluation of World Bank Support. © Washington, DC: World Bank. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/c774d028-c138-5819-a4f9-b97f5fd2345b License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”