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The candidate countries and the EU. 

The candidate countries and the EU. 

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This study, initiated within the framework of IIASA’s Young Scientists Summer Program 2001, investigates some key issues related to the enlargement and, in particular, the competitiveness of forest-based industries in the candidate countries. The main contribution of this study is its holistic approach to discern various forms of industrial competi...

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... One result of the major political and social changes in CEE and SEE has been an increased interest in privatisation in the forestry sector over the last three decades, something that has been described in a number of publications and papers published since 1990 (Lipton et al., 1990;Hanzl and Urban, 2001;Jager and Szepesi, 2002;Viitamo and Bilas, 2002;Ioras and Abrudan, 2006;Ilavský, 2006;Lawrence, 2009;Živojinović et al., 2017). ...
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