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"This book addresses East Central Europe's (ECE), the Baltics', and Russia's increasingly important roles as emerging markets and competitive economic players in the European region"--Provided by publisher.

"This book examines the nature of the process of technological change in different sectors of various countries, analyzing the impact of innovation as well as research and development activities on different outcomes in different fields and assessing the design and impact of policies aimed at...

"This book addresses existing solutions for data mining, with particular emphasis on potential real-world applications. It captures defining research on topics such as fuzzy set theory, clustering algorithms, semi-supervised clustering, modeling and managing data mining patterns, and sequence...

Africa -- The perspectives of African history -- Africa in the global economy -- The rising and compelling imperatives to do business in Africa -- The African regional integration and trading blocs -- Doing business in Africa and African business opportunities -- A strategic model for entering...

"This book helps readers to better understand the importance of Latin America in today's global economy, discussing the developments of investments involving Latin American Multinational Corporations ("Multilatinas") within the region"--Provided by publisher.

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