Sustainable growth and regional competitiveness of Serbian economy

Logistics-Intensive Clusters: Global Competitiveness and Regional Growth

Logistics intensive clusters are agglomerations of several types of firms and operations: (1) firms providing logistics services, such as 3PLs, transportation, warehousing and forwarders, (2) the logistics operations of industrial firms, such as the distribution operations of retailers, manufacturers (in many cases after-market parts) and distributors and (3) the operations of companies for who...

The sustainable growth of china's economy and its banking sector

ICT and Competitiveness of the Macedonian Economy

The ongoing process of liberalization, as well as the intensive technological breakthrough have a great impact either on the macroeconomic policy creators, or the dissimilarity of conventional approach to found a strategy of a certain company. Bearing in mind the very notation, core characteristics of the concept of competitiveness are needed to be explored, but also the necessity to establish ...

Iran’s Resistance Economy and Regional Integration

Iran’s ‘resistance economy’ is sometimes presented as defensive strategy. Despite Washington’s ‘New Middle East’ wars and the rapid evaporation of expected benefits from the long JCPOA (nuclear deal) process, a certain illusion remains that a general ‘normalisation’ with the outside powers might still bring economic benefits to the country. Nevertheless, it remains true that, while Iran is a la...

The political economy of space and Iran's regional balance

Introduction Countries with a rentier economy are usually dependent on the export of raw materials. Such countries have a centralized political system and inefficient bureaucracy that incorporate a broader administrative division in one or two cities. Dependence on the global economy (Endogenous Development), and the lack of a democratic political system, provides good conditions of centrali...