The ability of the national economy to create and valorize knowledge into innovation signifies its innovation capacity. Based on its own methodology, the aim of the paper is to: a) calculate the index of the Innovation capacity index of the European Union and the Western Balkans as an average of the value of the Research capacity index, Techn...

By Andrea Andrejević Panić, Aleksandar Kostić, Slobodan Cvetanović

 Negotiations with the World Trade Organization and membership in it represent one of the de facto conditions for membership in the European Union, which is the basic goal of our foreign policy. In the first part of the paper, the authors discussed the historical aspect of Serbia's current position in the World Trade Organization, and the reas...

By Aleksandra Milošević, Milena Milojević, Goran Stanišić

 Although we live in a time of normalization of the promotion of the rights of members of the LGBT community, the problems faced by this community are still numerous. As a consequence of the history of this issue and the constant manifestation of prejudice, violence and discrimination, members of the LGBT community have become a minority whose...

By Darko Dimovsk, Ivan Ilić, Katarina Momirović

 With the listed companies on the Banja Luka Stock Exchange, it is noticeable that a large number do not adhere to their legally prescribed obligations that are brought to the timely publication of information on business activities. In this regard, the research problem is the unfavorable position of minority shareholders in terms of informati...

By Miloš Grujić, Boris Srdić, Zdravko Zečević, Gordana Drobnjak

 Management of foreign exchange policy is complex activity for the leaders of economic policy and it cannot be autonomous, but has to be aligned with other measures of economic policy ( policy of managing demand, trend of monetary aggregates,export offer,etc.). Deficits from the trade balance, with constant overvaluing of local currency and in...

By Dejan Grujić

 Population exposure due to industrially contaminated sites (ICSs) is a global environmental health problem. Pljevlja municipality is one of the “black spots” in Montenegro and well known by pollution influence from several different sources. Agricultural soils in a city of Pljavlja are at the great ecological risk due to the impac...

By Nevena Cupara, Dijana Đurović, Ivana Milašević, Irena Nikolić

 After the disintegration of Yugoslavia in 1991, the paths of the newly formed states diverged, which affected the course, content and speed of implementation of economic reforms of the countries. It is characteristic of all the countries of the former Yugoslavia that negative growth rates were recorded in the second half of the 1990s, and eco...

By Ognjen Bakmaz, Mina Kovljenić, Nenad Marković

 The corona virus led to a sharp and unexpected downturn in the world economy that spared almost no world economy. According to the forecast of the International Monetary Fund, the decline in the world GDP is 3.3%. The situation is similar in Bosnia and Herzegovina as well. According to the Agency for Statistics of BiH, the fall in GDP in 2020...

By Ljiljana Jović, Mladen Ivić

 This paper points out the shifts in the issue of socio - economic relations based on the social economy. At the very end of the active process of globalization and all the conflicts that arose at the beginning of the 21st century due to connecting and increasing the number of big capital owners, poverty will spread to such an extent that many...

By Mirko Miličević, Milorad Đukić

 Advanced and majority of large and medium-sized seaports today produce a combination of public and private goods. Public goods are those that are indivisible by nature and are not expendable, such as public safety, security, healthy environment, coastal protection works necessary for the creation of a port basin, etc. Private goods are both e...

By Nikša Grgurević, Gordana Radović