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In early 2000, Mary Venner gave up a secure job and travelled to the other side of the world to work in foreign aid. She found a new career providing advice to politicians and government officials on how to manage their country's finances. Where Are You This Time? is her account of the challenges of working in these difficult and dangerous countries and the problems of economic development. She describes the strange living conditions, the dail...

Mary Venner gave up a secure job to travel to the other side of the world to work in foreign aid. She soon discovered that it isn't always about feeding the hungry and tending the sick. It's also about red tape and regulation, spreadsheets, computers and accounting. Mary arrived in Kosovo in the aftermath of the Balkan Wars and found a new career providing advice to politicians and government officials on how to manage their country's finances...

The reconstruction of Kosovo after 1999 was one of the largest and most ambitious international interventions in a post-conflict country. The United Nations, other major multinational organisations and many large bilateral aid donors all played a role in restoring stability and establishing governance in the territory. This book looks beyond the ap