The Republic of Serbia has declared accession of the European Union to be the main strategic goal and recognized the EU Sustainable Development Strategy as a guiding framework for the future development. In the first commitment period of Kyoto Protocol (2008-2012) the Republic of Serbia, as...

Serbia had, when started its process of European integration in 2000, relatively high level of external debt amounting to 132% of GDP. All liabilities were practically inherited Government external debt since private sector during the period before 2000 even did not have the opportunity to take...

The main task of competition policy is to ensure and preserve the functionality of the market by providing equal business conditions and equal opportunities for the success to all market participants. A prerequisite to satisfactory results in this field is institutionally defined and completed...

Financial crisis, as shown in this moment, can provoke great economic and social damage which hurts trade. The cost of essential financial service is getting higher than usual, while their availability is reduced, which is reflected indirectly through depressing aggregate demand. The most...

The development of trade relations between Western Balkan countries represents very complicated and long-term process, including regional and trade integration. In this chapter we analysed foreign trade performances and various factors that used to affect on trade results between Western Balkan...

Since its creation in 1957, the European Union (EU) has 27 member states today. The process of the enlargement of the EU is not finished yet, and the EU opens its doors to the other countries, mainly Western Balkan countries – so Serbia is the part. We present here the actual situation of the...

Proportionally large share in gross domestic product, long-standing tradition and favorable climate conditions for organization of great deal of production lines in agriculture, have contributed to a fact that Serbian agriculture was awarded a status of development priority, and agriculture...

The aim of this chapter was to analyse the potential for innovation and competitiveness of small and medium enterprises in Serbia. Presenting the strategy and the project which are determining the innovation of small and medium enterprise, it is necessary to know their significance for the...

The main purpose of this chapter is to analyse the pace of structural changes in the Serbian economy predominantly through comparative analysis with other countries of Western Balkans i.e. to identify the progress made in implementation these changes, main challenges and to perceive whether and...

Taking in account the role and the importance of the FDI, as well as the measures for stimulating the FDI inflows, the overall objective of this paper is to investigate attractiveness of Serbia for inwards FDI, particularly within the South-East European region. The focal point of this paper has...