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Imagining the Balkans
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ISBN: 1282054015 9786612054013 0199728380 9780199728381 9780195387865 0195387864 6612054018 0199889090 0197713823 Year: 2009 Publisher: Oxford New York Oxford University Press

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'Imagining the Balkans' examines how an innocent geographic appellation was transformed into a powerful and widespread pejorative designation. In a new afterword, Maria Todorova discusses the reaction to her dubbing of the term Balkanism and recent events in the Balkans.


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Perekhody, peremeny, prevrashchenii͡a
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Year: 2009 Publisher: Moskva : In-t slavi͡anovedenii͡a RAN,

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Pension reform in Southeastern Europe : linking to labor and financial market reform
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ISBN: 082137558X 9786611878672 1281878677 0821375598 Year: 2009 Publisher: Washington, DC : World Bank,

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Around the world, pension reform remains at the center of public debate. Its social, fiscal, and macroeconomic implications confront policy makers, practitioners, and academia with challenging questions. Pension systems in aging societies-in need of reform and further stressed by the pressures of globalization-require parallel reforms of the labor market and effective lifelong learning, not only to promote working longer, but to ensure that people can actually do so. At the same time, the working population should be motivated to contribute to pension schemes and prepare for old age. Diversify


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Intercultural for greater Europe : the european Union and the Balkans : visions of leading policy makers and academics
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ISBN: 9789279127229 Year: 2009 Publisher: Luxembourg Office des publications


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Les Balkans : une géopolitique de la violence
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ISSN: 12752975 ISBN: 9782701149394 2701149398 Year: 2009 Publisher: Paris: Belin,

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Devant les dix années de violence extrême qui se sont déroulées dans les Balkans, l'opinion occidentale manque de repères. D'une part, elle souhaite vivement rester à l'écart d'événements dont elle comprend mal le déroulement et la logique, mais en même temps, elle constate que, dans le cadre de l'OTAN et de l'UE, des troupes venues des diverses armées européennes sont engagées durablement dans le conflit. Ensuite et de façon paradoxale, au moment où le scepticisme monte vis-à-vis de l'UE, tous les États des Balkans se pressent à sa porte. Enfin, et comme le montre l'actualité récente, cette histoire n'est pas finie et les braises couvent sous la cendre. L'auteur, après avoir analysé l'histoire récente - l'indépendance du Kosovo en 2008 et la guerre des Balkans (1991-1999) - retrace l'originalité historique des Balkans. Seule région de l'Europe où un empire extérieur, non européen, a disputé aux nations européennes une part du continent dans une période récente, c'est aussi la seule région où les Européens n'étaient pas maîtres chez eux mais dépendaient d'un centre extérieur, en l'occurrence Istanbul, capitale de l'Empire Ottoman. Cette histoire particulière en fait l'unique région d'Europe qui fut partiellement islamisée, après avoir été partagée entre un christianisme occidental et un christianisme oriental. L'auteur nous éclaire également sur les nations balkaniques elles-mêmes, pour qui la domination ottomane a été vécue comme illégitime et néfaste, la Turquie ayant coupé l'Europe balkanique des contacts avec l'Ouest alors que se développaient la Renaissance et les Lumières.

Post-Roman towns, trade and settlement in Europe and Byzantium
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ISBN: 3110183579 3110183560 3110183587 9783110183566 3110183566 9783110183580 3110183580 9783110183573 9786612187384 1282187384 3110218836 9786612187377 1282187376 3110218844 9783110218831 9783110218848 9781282187375 6612187379 Year: 2009 Volume: Bd. 5. Publisher: Berlin: de Gruyter,

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In this collection leading international authorities analyse the structures and economic functions of non-agrarian centres between ca. 500 and 1000 A.D. - their trade, their surrounding settlements, and the agricultural and cultural milieux. The thirty-one papers presented at an international conference held in Bad Homburg focus on recent archaeological discoveries in Central Europe (Vol.1), as well as on those from southeastern Europe to Asia Minor (Vol. 2).


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Competitiveness and private sector development : sector specific sources of competitiveness in the Western Balkans : recommendation for a regional investment strategy.
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ISBN: 1282159887 9786612159886 926405569X 9789264055698 9264053638 9789264053632 Year: 2009 Publisher: Paris, France : OECD,

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The Western Balkan region benefits from a cost-competitive labour force and geographic and cultural proximity to EU markets. However, cost competitiveness as a source of differentiation is not sustainable. Cost levels are increasing gradually in some sectors, reducing firms’ profitability. In order to sustain competitiveness, the Western Balkans needs to move up the value chain, from investing in automated technology to producing higher-quality goods and enhancing its human capital. This report examines the apparel manufacturing, automotive components and business process and technology outsourcing sectors, focusing on market competitiveness factors, industry key success factors and policy recommendations.

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Balkan Peninsula -- Economic conditions. --- Competition -- Balkan Peninsula. --- Competition --Balkan Peninsula -- Statistics. --- Industrial policy -- Balkan Peninsula. --- Investments -- Balkan Peninsula. --- Quality of products -- Balkan Peninsula. --- Regional economics. --- Competition --- Investments --- Industrial policy --- Technological innovations --- Quality of products --- Labor supply --- Regional economics --- Business & Economics --- Economic History --- Balkan Peninsula --- Economic conditions. --- Economic policy. --- Labor force --- Labor force participation --- Labor pool --- Work force --- Workforce --- Product quality --- Breakthroughs, Technological --- Innovations, Industrial --- Innovations, Technological --- Technical innovations --- Technological breakthroughs --- Technological change --- Business --- Industries --- Industry and state --- Investing --- Investment management --- Portfolio --- Competition (Economics) --- Competitiveness (Economics) --- Economic competition --- Government policy --- Economic aspects --- Balkan States --- Balkans --- Europe, Southeastern --- Southeastern Europe --- Economics --- Regional planning --- Regionalism --- Space in economics --- Labor market --- Human capital --- Labor mobility --- Manpower --- Manpower policy --- Consumer protection --- Quality control --- Workmanship --- Creative ability in technology --- Inventions --- Domestication of technology --- Innovation relay centers --- Research, Industrial --- Technology transfer --- Economic policy --- Finance --- Disinvestment --- Loans --- Saving and investment --- Speculation --- Commerce --- Conglomerate corporations --- Covenants not to compete --- Industrial concentration --- Monopolies --- Open price system --- Supply and demand --- Trusts, Industrial --- Finance and Investment --- Industry and Services --- Compétitivité (Economie) --- Economic conditions --- Conditions économiques

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