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Puzzles in Local Development and Transformation in South East Europe

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The overall economic aim of transformation in South East Europe (SEE) over the last 20 years has been to support sustained economic growth. This required states to ensure conditions for the pursuit of freedom and the creation of innovating institutions, organizations and structures. Local development should have played a central role in this, on its own merit and in consideration of the centralized nature of the pre-transformation economic system.

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  1. University of Trento, Italy

    Bruno Dallago (Professor of Economics)

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  1. London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

    Will Bartlett (Senior Research Fellow in the Political Economy of South East Europe) & Vassilis Monastiriotis (Senior Lecturer in the Political Economy of South East Europe) (Senior Research Fellow in the Political Economy of South East Europe) &  (Senior Lecturer in the Political Economy of South East Europe)

  2. Institute for International Relations, Zagreb, Croatia

    Sanja Maleković (Senior Research Associate) (Senior Research Associate)

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Dallago, B. (2013). Puzzles in Local Development and Transformation in South East Europe. In: Bartlett, W., Maleković, S., Monastiriotis, V. (eds) Decentralization and Local Development in South East Europe. Studies in Economic Transition. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137295651_2

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