THE ECONOMY OF BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA IN THE LIGHT OF GLOBAL CHALLENGES

Abstract

The subject of research in this paper are the expectations of Bosnian businessmen regarding the future conditions of business operations. Based on the current

moment and challenges, the pandemic, the war in Ukraine, inflation, they were asked to assess future economic trends. The goal was to assess the degree of optimism or pessimism among entrepreneurs as an important factor in the future development of the economy.

Managers in different sectors of the economy were surveyed in three cities of northeastern Bosnia and Herzegovina: Bijeljina, Zvornik and Brčko. The future of our economy was assessed from the following aspects: the key difficulties that businessmen will face, expectations about future economic growth, the attitude of the BiH authorities towards the current divisions in the world due to the Russian-Ukrainian war, as well as an estimate of the time when normal working conditions will be established and business activities that existed before the pandemic.