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The Eu Enlargement. How to be Like the Irish and not the Greek?

ECONOMICS, 2019
Apart from the former EFTA members (Iceland, Lichtenstein, Norway and Switzerland) and a few former republics of the Soviet Union (Bjelorussia, Moldova and Ukraina) the countries of the Western Balkans are the only European states outside of the European
Mahmutefendic Tahir
doaj   +1 more source

Role of Innovation on Green Economic Growth: Empirical Analysis from the Countries of the Western Balkans

Ekonomika
The impact of innovations on the growth of the green economy is a crucial aspect for a country’s economy. The promotion of these innovations and investments is also vital for sustainable and long-term development.
Marigonë Plakaj Vërbovci, Atdhetar Gara, Hyrije Abazi Alili   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Regional Sustainability Assessment Under Risk and Uncertainty: A Water–Energy–Food Based Framework

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Regional sustainability assessment requires integrated structures that can examine the interactions between Water–Energy–Food (WEF) systems, socio‐economic risk conditions, and performance outcomes under uncertainty. This study proposes a multidimensional framework that combines a suitability index, composite sustainability indicators ...
Murat Oturakci
wiley   +1 more source

Gendering Late Ottoman Society and Reconstructing Gender in the Women's Press

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyses the construction of gender differences in the late Ottoman Empire through women's periodicals, which acted as a key medium in the redefinition of gender roles. It examines how new understandings of gender roles emerged amid rapid transformations in traditional societal structures, particularly in the women’s press.
Tuğba Karaman
wiley   +1 more source

ASSESSMENT OF THE IMPACT OF PERCEIVED CORRUPTION ON ECONOMIC GROWTH USING THE GLS MODEL

Acta Economica
Researchers not only dissent on what effect corruption has on economic growth but also whether this effect holds in different institutional contexts. Some economists argue that corruption can stimulate economic growth in environments with poor governance
Vasko Kelić, Ivana Ostojić, Predrag Jovanović   +2 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Banking Regulation Of Western Balkan Countries

European Journal of Sustainable Development, 2014
The current global economic crisis has affected the development of banking system in Western Balkan Countries, including Italy and Greece. These effects are expressed with the contraction of lending, fallen of foreign direct investments, fallen of the volume of remittances and fallen of international trade.
openaire   +2 more sources

HOUSING QUESTION OLD AND NEW: Mapping Crowding, Tenure, Rents and Segregation in the Neighborhoods of Major European Cities around 1900 and Today

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In a context of unprecedented urbanization, nineteenth‐century European cities faced the ‘housing question’, i.e. precarious housing standards and affordability problems. While existing research has well described these historical housing problems in single‐city studies or in national urbanization histories, to our knowledge, there are hardly ...
Sebastian Kohl, Florian Müller, Ria Wilken   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of the Effects of the EU Official Development Assistance to the Western Balkans

Acta Economica, 2017
Official development assistance (ODA) implies the movement of capital with a minimum of one quarter of grant. It was established in the second half of the previous century, with the aim of getting developed countries to set aside a part of their gross ...
Ognjen Erić
doaj   +1 more source

Western Balkans as the Frontline of Russian Hybrid Warfare

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Hybrid warfare (HW) scholarship acknowledges the phenomenon's contextual and temporal specificity, yet its dominant conceptual framing has generated a literature largely centred on identifying and categorising hybrid activities. This focus has left the contextual vulnerabilities that enable hybrid threats (HTs) and shape an adversary's ...
Vesna Bojicic‐Dzelilovic
wiley   +1 more source

The European Union in the Indo‐Pacific: Gauging the EU's Indo‐Pacific Strategy Across Eight Indo‐Pacific Locations

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article offers a macro‐overview of the reception and effectiveness of the European Union's (EU) Indo‐Pacific Strategy (IPS) released in April 2021. Drawing on research conducted across eight Indo‐Pacific locations—Australia, China, India, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand—the study involved 111 semi‐structured ...
Nicholas Ross Smith, Martin Holland
wiley   +1 more source