Development Particularities of Business Environment in Slovakia from 2008 to 2014
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Peter Malega, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovakia.
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Darina Šimova Bialkova, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovakia.
European funds are a tool of regional policy of the European Union for the elimination of regional disparities within the European Union and therefore on the overall improvement of the economy. EU funds are the instrument, which can help to equalize the disparity in the individual states of the EU and also in the Slovak Republic. The first part of this article deals with the analysis of the GCI index, the second part focuses on Doing Business and the third part is focused on operational programs NSRR in Slovakia in the programming period 2007 – 2013. The main objective of the article is to create procedure for the analysis of data about projects financed by EU in Slovak conditions and this procedure is shown at the end of the paper.
GCI Index, Doing Business, EU Funds, Operational Programs
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