Black is white, up is down, and David Binder was documenting the results of the 1997 collapse of the Albanian economy in the 1980's.
It's all good.
I know the truth hurts, but David Binder was documenting the results of the Albanian terror campaign against the Serbs in the 1980's and those are facts that cannot be denied.
When the Albanian economy hit rock bottom in 1997, that's when the KLA began their full scale grab.
Ok, now you can return to your defense of the Jihadists.
You obviously know little, or let's say...a selective version of balkan history prior to the 90's resurgence of facist elements in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo...all of which you have supported in this forum.
Mr. Binder wrote of the balkans in the 80's...specifically of Kosovo in the 1980's which took in more illegal albanians from albania in that decade...please note that albania's economy was one in economic decline..that the years '84, '85 and'86 were some of their worst--only to go downhill into the 90's an dunder albanian direction, as they were the ruling group in Kosovo in the 1970's and 80's---the border between Kosovo and Albania was as porous as the Texas border is with Mexico. We need not discuss the ponzi scheme of the albanians, unless you wish to talk about the abundant supply of munitions from the raided military depots that entered Kosovo via albania when anarchy set in...
"The productivity growth rate fell slowly but steadily during the Seventh Five-Year Plan (1981-85), and the annual increase in net material product for the period 1981-88 averaged only 1.7 percent, a figure that did not even keep pace with the country's annual population increase of more than 2 percent. Albania's economy suffered two of its worst years in 1984 and 1985. In 1984, 1985, 1987, and 1988 the net material product decreased, and from 1986 to 1990 it declined 1.4 percent (see Table 5, Appendix). Five years of drought between 1983 and 1988 dealt sharp setbacks to agricultural and hydroelectric power output. Power shortages and other acute problems afflicted two of Albania's main generators of hard-currency income, oil and chrome. As output fell, investment contracted and caused further drops in productivity. Insolvent enterprises turned to the state for bailouts. The shortage of goods circulating in the economy and the government's maintenance of fixed wage levels created repressed inflation and forced saving."
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?frd/cstdy:@field(DOCID+al0070)