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In this part, we take the 32 countries in the sample one by one and provide an overview of their economy from the inventory researcher’s point of view. The purpose of the chapter is to give a background for interpreting and analysing results about individual countries shown in various chapters of the book. Therefore, this chapter serves as kind of a reference background for the interpretation and evaluation of different country results.
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Chikán, A., Kovács, E., Matyusz, Z., Sass, M., Vakhal, P. (2018). Inventory Developments in Individual Countries. In: Inventories in National Economies. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-7371-7_6
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