Mark Phillips
International Cooperation Specialist
Tel: 202-712-0044
Email: mphillips@usaid.gov |
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Overview
Slovenia is economically strong, politically stable, and active in Southern and Eastern Europe. Slovenia’s accession to the European Union (EU) and North Atlantic Treaty Organization in 2004 reflects the level of political and economic development the country has achieved during its 17 years of independence, and the role it can play in furthering the U.S. priorities of promoting regional stability, market liberalization, and law enforcement cooperation. Slovenia is a member of all major international financial institutions—the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank Group, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development—as well as 40 other international organizations, including the World Trade Organization, of which it is a founding member.
Between 1993 and 1997, USAID delivered to support Slovenia in its transition from a state-controlled economy and authoritarian government to a free-market democracy. Aid from the American people focused on financial sector reform, private enterprise development, and the strengthening of democratic institutions. Today, Slovenia has one of the strongest economies in Central and Eastern Europe. |
Graduation Report - September 1997
Partnership for Transition:
USAID in the Republic of Slovenia
Introduction Excerpt
The United States Agency for International Development
(USAID) has worked in partnership with the Siovenian people
to promote economic reform and democratic institutions. This
report summarizes the $12.4 million USAID assistance
program implemented during 1993-1997, in response to a
1993 request for assistance on behalf of the Government of
Slovenia (GOS) from the Minister of Finance, Mr. Mitja
Gaspari. The USAID program focused on financial sector
reform, private enterprise development, and the
strengthening of democratic institutions.
In 1993, two years after independence, Slovenia was making
the difficult economic and democratic transition from a
centrally planned economy to a free market economy with
democratic institutions, enabling Slovenia to pursue full and
equal membership in Europe.The GOS, however, recognized
several key constraints to this transition, such as the need
for financial sector reform, including basic legal and regulatory
changes; the need for privatization; and shortages of domestic
and foreign investment capital. The specific GOS request in
1993 enabled USAID to design and implement discrete,
targeted, and cost-effective programs to begin to address
these well-defined constraints.
Read the full Graduation Report - September 1997 (Adobe Acrobat PDF, 8.09mb)
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