The Challenges of Competitiveness in Southeast European Countries

Ines Kersan-Škabić; Lela Tijanić

doi:10.2478/v10033-009-0011-6

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The Challenges of Competitiveness in Southeast European Countries

South East European Journal of Economics and Business

Volume 4 (2009): Issue 2 (November 2009)

By: Ines Kersan-Škabić and Lela Tijanić

Open Access

|Jun 2011

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