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Cohort 2 of the MEGA Program: Basic economic facts, 2006

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Title Cohort 2 of the MEGA Program: Basic economic facts, 2006
 
Creator Vukotić-Cotić, Gordana
 
Description The MEGA Program is funded by the United States Agency for International Develop‐ ment, and implemented by the Urban Institute from Washington DC. Its objective is, in short, to enable local governments and local businesses in Serbia to foster economic growth not only in the participating municipalities but also, through the effect of keeping up with them, in all others. The eleven municipalities that joined the Program in its second stage, referred to as Cohort 2, exhibited a weak economic performance in 2006, as the baseline year. In comparison with Serbia, the majority of these municipalities had a lower share of women in employment (in total, and by enterprises and entrepreneurs), and a higher share of women in unemployment. The unemployment rates in total and for women in particular, were high everywhere. Only for two municipalities were they lower than for Serbia. At last but not the least, new enterprises and new entrepreneurs were established, for the most part, in the wholesale and retail trade – which is not crucial for the economic growth of impoverished areas.
 
Publisher Institute of Economic Sciences, Belgrade, Serbia
 
Date 2017-09-25
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://www.library.ien.bg.ac.rs/index.php/ea/article/view/43
 
Source Economic Analysis; Vol 40 No 3-4 (2007): Economic Analysis; 68-76
2560-3949
1821-2573
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://www.library.ien.bg.ac.rs/index.php/ea/article/view/43/39
 
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