03.11.2005

Speech by Principal Deputy HR Larry Butler to NATO Senior Officers: “Post-Conflict Reconstruction is a Joint Political-Military Undertaking”

Ten years ago next month, 60,000 NATO-led troops began deploying across Bosnia and Herzegovina. IFOR entered the country in force and in good order. Within days of its arrival, military bridges had been erected at strategic river crossings, helicopters dominated the skyline; and tanks and other fighting vehicles had taken up advance positions along [...]
29.09.2005

Speech by Principal Deputy HR Larry Butler at a Conference on the BiH Financial Sector: “BiH Needs Government Securities Market, Strong Banking Supervision”

One of the lessons made plain by the experience of the Central and East European transition countries in the last decade is that you cannot fix an economy piecemeal. You have to do the job holistically. Privatisation doesn’t work if you don’t upgrade the business environment as a whole; business environment improvements aren’t effective if they a [...]