Since Serbia began to privatize state-owned enterprises in the early 1990s, only small-scale industrial plants and a few big firms have acquired new private owners. This failure owes much to the naïve assumptions of the western advisors who recommended privatization methods that were highly vulnerable to corruption.

Milic Milovanovic is a professor of economics at Belgrade University.
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