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AUTHOR
Edgars Kasalis
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CLUSTER APPROACH AS ONE OF DETERMINANTS FOR INCREASING COMPETITIVENESS OF RIGA FREEPORT
2011
The cluster-based approach offers a new way of dividing and understanding an economy and competitiveness. The main objective of the present study was to reveal the influence of industrial clusters on Freeport’s of Riga business competitiveness and integrated development. The cluster environment stimulates competitiveness and competition inside the cluster and the industry. One of the reasons for the current problems of Latvia’s competitiveness is the low level of business entities’ co-operation and business integration in the national economy of Latvia and the Freeport of Riga in particular. Companies are isolated in their approaches to increasing their competitiveness and entering the glob…
LATVIAN POPULATION HEALTH QUALITY APPROXIMATION TO THE EU LEVEL- ONE OF THE CHALLENGES FOR PERSISTENT EU ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
2012
With the admission of Latvia in constitution of EU, issues related to the harmonization of Latvian national economy development characterizing indexes with the average EU indexes, thus conducting the economic development of all member countries in compliance with agreed strategic setup, became topical. Since one of the fundamental principles of EU economic development is stimulation of sustainable development of national economy, the improvement of Latvian population health quality indexes approximating those to the average indexes of EU countries, is one of the substantial strategic goals which is defined in several long-term development planning documents. The goal of the research is to e…