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Articles – Artikler

Foreign direct investment, local conditions and development: Crossing from dependency to progress in peripheral Kuressaare, Estonia

Pages 142-151 | Received 03 Jun 2009, Accepted 23 Apr 2010, Published online: 15 Sep 2010

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