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This book provides an analysis of Western tourists who travel in developing countries for holiday purposes, enabling suppliers to be aware of and help meet their demands while maximizing economic benefits, minimizing undesired social and cultural impacts, and developing sustainable products and practices. The book is intended for students and researchers in leisure, recreation and tourism, and to practitioners implementing tourism programmes in developing countries. The book has 5 chapters and a subject index.

The current publication covers Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo under UNSCR 1244/99, the FYR Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia, and provides an overview of the agricultural situation in the European Union (EU) candidate and potential candidate countries of the Western Balkans (WBs). The objective was to provide an analysis of the development and current situation in agriculture and agricultural policy in these countries as relates to the EU accession process. The individual country reports, as well as a cross-country overview and comparison, have been prepared as a part of 'AgriPolicy' project, which was financially supported by the European Commission under the 7th framework program. CONTENTS: PREFACE . I; EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. 1, Tina Volk, Miroslav Rednak, Emil Erjavec; CHAPTER 1: Western Balkan agriculture and agricultural policy - Cross-country overview and comparison. 7, Tina Volk, Miroslav Rednak, Emil Erjavec; CHAPTER 2: Review of agriculture and agricultural policy in Albania. 37, Roland Cela, Shkelzen Marku, Drini Imami; CHAPTER 3: Review of agriculture and agricultural policy in Bosnia and Herzegovina . 63, Sabahudin Bajramović, Dragana Ognjenović, Aleksandra Nikolić; CHAPTER 4: Review of agriculture and agricultural policy in Croatia . 93, Ornella Mikuš, Željka Mesic, Marija Cerjak; CHAPTER 5: Review of agriculture and agricultural policy in Kosovo under UNSCR 1244/99. 123, Muhedin Nushi; CHAPTER 6: Review of agriculture and agricultural policy in FYR Macedonia. 145, Dragi Dimitrievski, Nenad Georgiev, Ana Simonovska, Aleksandra Martinovska Stojceska, Ana Kotevska; CHAPTER 7: Review of agriculture and agricultural policy in Montenegro . 165, Božidarka Marković, Milan Marković; CHAPTER 8: Review of agriculture and agricultural policy in Serbia . 189, Natalija Bogdanov, Dragica Bozic; CHAPTER 9: Agricultural policy measures template - A tool for classifying and analyzing agricultural policy measures . 219, Miroslav Rednak, Tina Volk

The main purpose of this paper is to analyze the structure and level of current account deficit and the ratio between the current account deficit and its determinants in the Western Balkan countries. The methodology is based on the econometric model that enables the testing of the impact of each independent variable on the dependent variable. Once the stationarity and cointegration between the variables was verified, the FMOLS and DOLS equation was used to show the relation between the variables. The econometric model consists of independent variables (trade balance, foreign direct investment, remittances), while the dependent variable is the current account balance. The econometric model has enabled the estimation of the significance and direction of movement of each of the independent variables to the dependent variable. Findings have shown that the trade balance deficit is the main determinant of the current account deficit in the Western Balkans confirming the first hypothesis of the paper, while foreign direct investment and remittances are the means of financing this deficit confirming the second hypothesis of the paper. This paper may be of interest to developing macroeconomic policies in order to direct efforts to reduce current account deficits by making reforms to structural changes in current account deficits, because the problems of this deficit stem from the structure of current account.

Macroeconomic Policy Regimes in Western Industrial Countries explains how certain countries have created a more liberal and market-based type of capitalism. The emphasis throughout is on how understanding macroeconomic policies, and the institutional framework in which they operate, is vital to understanding the long-run dynamics of a capitalist economy