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The main objective of this book is to determine the constrains and the challenges that foreign entrepreneurs face while investing in Southeast Europe and to measure the impact of these constrains to the real amounts of FDI flows.The impact of the quality of the infrastructure, availability of finance, the flexibility and the regulations of the labor market, the level of corruption and crime, trade, the quality of the court system and the level of innovations and technology on the case countries; Macedonia, Albania, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia were examined. The findings of this work suggest that countries like Slovenia and Croatia which were ranked higher with respect to the evaluation of these constrains also succeeded to attract more FDI. At the same time countries like Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia and Serbia that were ranked lower were not able to attract FDI.

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Alpaj Jasar is graduated in Banking and Finance department in 2006 and completed his Master program in 2008 at Eastern Mediterranean University in Northen Cyprus. He has earned certificates on "Investment Appraisal" from Queen´s University in Canada. Alpaj Jasar works for the last six years in Albtelecom Sh.a Albania as an internal auditor .

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