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{"title":"ECONOMIC VIABILITY OF THE HYDROPOWER PLANTS OF THE FUTURE","authors":"M. Šmelcerović, Pavle Trpeski","doi":"10.35120/kij4701191s","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35120/kij4701191s","url":null,"abstract":"The impact of hydropower plants on the environment varies greatly, depending on site-specific mitigation measures and production strategies: if badly managed, hydropower production can reduce biodiversity and can significantly degrade fluvial ecosystems and associated ecosystem services.Ocean waves are an immense, unused source of energy. Since global attention is nowadays constantly being drawn to the fact that the level of CO2 is rising, creating the so called “greenhouse effect”, and influencing further climate changes, the focus on generating electricity from renewable sources forces itself as an important area of future research. The possibility to exploit the energy potential created by sea waves indisputably exists. Various researches conducted in the field of unused energy sources prove the necessity of seriously considering this potential of sea waves. The illustration of this point in noted in a recently performed estimation that up to 15 per cent of current UK electricity demand could be met by wave energy, and when this is combined with tidal stream generation, even up to 20 per cent of the UK demand for electrical power could be met. This paper introduces the readers to the topic of water power, as a natural source of renewable energy, investigating the possibility of using power of waves as one of the technically and ecologically appropriate solutions of exploiting this renewable natural source. It is a fact widely acknowledged that climate change and global warming are the number-one challenge of the contemporary world; practically every available research predicts that with the current rate of development the world is heading for at least 2, and even more likely 3-4, degrees warmer climate by the end of this century. As energy production and use account for two-thirds of global greenhouse-gas emissions, the energy industry is in a key role to cut emissions – while powering economic growth, boosting energy security and increasing energy access. In view of this, hydropower can make a major contribution to climate change mitigation. Not only is hydropower practically CO₂-free, thus eliminating its possible contribution to the greenhouse effect, but it is also both more efficient and flexible compared with existing fossil alternatives for base load and balancing power. Even though the world is aware of the potential of hydropower, and despite the fact that many wave energy devices are nowadays being investigated, most of these are currently at the research and development stage, with only a small range of devices having been tested at large scale, deployed in the oceans. Thus, one of the goals of this paper would be to present the technology used to turn the power of waves unto electric power, as well as the various types of turbines and devices which represent the latest technological achievements in this area. The goal of this paper is also to present the existing devices, their manner of functioning, and their efficiency and safety","PeriodicalId":17821,"journal":{"name":"Knowledge International Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88739860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"BARRIERS OF SME'S IN KOSOVO","authors":"Edona Draga","doi":"10.35120/kij4701181d","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35120/kij4701181d","url":null,"abstract":"Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) play a very important role for the economic success of any country, due to their contribution to the functioning of the economic network, job creation, development of entrepreneurial skills, innovation and the improvement of economic well-being. For the functioning and development of SMEs also plays an important role their financing, which is defined as key factors for the functioning of the business, as well as for its long-term development. Despite their importance in the economy, they face a number of obstacles that affect their development, where in most research of SMEs in Kosovo access to finance is considered as the main barrier. The purpose of this paper is to identify and analyze the barriers faced by small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Kosovo during the exercise of their business activity and is based on quantitative data using the quantitative method. Data collection was conducted through a survey conducted with 200 SMEs and the instrument used for data collection is the questionnaire. Assessing barriers to doing business by businesses themselves is an important insight which serves various entrepreneurs in an effort to improve the business environment. Despite the importance of small and medium enterprises in their role in the economic development of the country, we can say that the business environment has not always been favorable for these enterprises. From this research we can conclude that small enterprises in our country are not sufficiently developed they face many problems during the development of their activity. The study concludes with a number of conclusions, where these can address a large number of obstacles faced by businesses on the path of doing business in Kosovo, trying to create a conducive environment in which companies can be helped to overcome, or face these obstacles.","PeriodicalId":17821,"journal":{"name":"Knowledge International Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82992291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"SUSTAINABILITY AND DIGITALIZATON OF THE REGIONAL TELEVISIONS THROUGH THE PRISM OF LEGISLATIVE BROADCASTING: THE CASE OF THE REPUBLIC OF NORTH MACEDONIA","authors":"Slavica Burova","doi":"10.35120/kij4701243b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35120/kij4701243b","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, the European and Macedonian television etherare experiencing major changes. The process of digitalization of television has been completed in most European countries, while in a smaller number it is still ongoing. Digitalization of television means production, transmission and reception of television programs in digital form through the use of digital methods for modulation and signal processing. \u0000The process of digitalization of televisions in the Republic of North Macedonia was carried out during 2013, although the first scenario for digitalization was to be completed by the end of 2012. By decision of the Government of the Republic of Macedonia, analog signals were switched off on 31 May 2013, and The very next day, on June 1, 2013, the digital broadcasting started. From a legal point of view, this process passed without enough public debate, media managers were brought before a final act, and at the last minute they were forced to sign contracts and documents for the transition from analog to digital signal. This was especially negatively reflected on the work of the regional televisions whose programs, under very unfavorable financial conditions, are distributed by a digital public communication network operator. The Association for Private Media of the Republic of North Macedonia, at the time of the adoption of the regulations, categorically states that the current conditions for digitalization are too much for the televisions, above all economically unjustified and completely unacceptable in the current situation. Additionally, the frequency spectrum management in the Republic of North Macedonia is under the competence of a special regulator - the Agency for Electronic Communications, which is also an independent regulatory body, while the decisions for issuing licenses in the broadcasting area are made by the Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Services (previously Broadcasting Tip). \u0000The main claim of this research is that a strategically designed regulatory policy, if it strives to achieve media and cultural pluralism, in the implementation of the digitalization process, must take into account the conditions for economic sustainability and development of regional television. \u0000The main goal of this research is an analysis of the process of digitalization of terrestrial televisions, which was conducted during 2013 by the Government of the Republic of Macedonia and the regulatory bodies of the broadcasting activity. \u0000A qualitative research strategy will be applied in the research. The following methods for data collection or analysis will be used: qualitative analysis of documents; analysis of secondary data; in-depth interviews with owners or managers of regional televisions and in-depth interviews with experts in the field of media policy and in the field of management and broadcasting; qualitative analysis of interview transcripts. \u0000Regional televisions are a very important factor in informing the citizens in the reg","PeriodicalId":17821,"journal":{"name":"Knowledge International Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86478623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE OF THE IMPACT OF INTEREST RATE, GOVERNMENT EXPENSES, MONEY SUPPLY AND REAL EFFECTIVE EXCHANGE RATE ON ECONOMIC GROWTH – THE CASE OF NORTH MACEDONIA","authors":"Liridona Seferi, Zufer Seferi, Harun Mustafa","doi":"10.35120/kij4701123s","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35120/kij4701123s","url":null,"abstract":"The main purpose of this paper  is to analyze the impact of interest rates, government expenses, money supply and real exchange rates on the economic growth of the Republic of North Macedonia. A country's economic groëth refers to the growth of that country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The interest rate is one of the determining factors of economic groëth. Despite the challenging macroeconomic environment and other influencing factors, the Republic of North Macedonia in recent years has maintained low inflation rates and  interest rates. \u0000Empirical analysis of the paper  is based on data obtained from the Central Bank of Republic of North Macedonia on a quarterly basis for the period from 2008 to 2020. Through the use of co integration tests (Johanensen test), Granger causality test, autocorrelation test, VAR, ARCH and GARCH process, it is verified that the rate interest rate is a determining variable and has a long-term relationship with economic groëth. \u0000The co integration test (Johannesen test) shoës that in all equations the results are statistically significant and the variables have a long-run relationship betëeen them. Then the use of the Granger test of causality  notes that money supply causes interest rate changes; they also cause a change in economic groëth. \u0000The unit root test is used to determine the level of integration of variables .The use of the Granger causality test then points out that the money supply causes  changes on  interest rate ; GDP also causes interest rate changes. The interest rate causes the change of economic groëth. Government spending causes the change of economic groëth. The effective exchange rate causes the change of economic growth. \u0000Evidence of co integration allowed the application of the VAR model, which enabled the identification of variables that affect economic groëth in the Republic of North Macedonia, both in the short and long term. \u0000In the end, all variables are tested together and it turns out that logarithmic GDP and interest rates have an impact on economic growth. \u0000The conclusions from the data analysis are that all variables are interrelated and have an impact on economic growth. \u0000Also there can be identified and other economic factors that have impact on economic growth that are not included on this paper.","PeriodicalId":17821,"journal":{"name":"Knowledge International Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90164958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"IMPACT OF COVID-19 CRISIS ON BALANCE OF PAYMENTS: RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA","authors":"Milan B. Vemić","doi":"10.35120/kij4701079v","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35120/kij4701079v","url":null,"abstract":"After reintegration with the world market and convergence towards the European Union which followed, the Serbian economy is no longer facing huge balance of payments deficits as earlier, which required improving the terms of trade, growth of exports and foreign direct investment. Furthermore, according to major international financial organizations, because of foreign trade and foreign exchange policies Serbian balance of payments nevertheless offers prospects for sustained economic growth and development in spite of the Covid-19 crisis. The general purpose in this paper is to review pre-pandemic and pandemic balance of payments experiences from Serbia with special emphasis on deficit mitigation performance as there is still a lingering balance of payments deficit. After classifying the internal and external factors of deficit, the specific purpose of this paper approaches research of the Covid-19 pandemic impact on the Serbian balance of payments at the end of the performance-rating period (2016-2020). Methodology of research of Serbian balance of payments is presented in the second section. It relied dominantly on IMF data sources, specifically IMF yearly data in million $ (2016-2020) and comparatively on Serbian statistical office (2019-2020). Eurostat GDP data (2020) was consulted for other countries, which are main trading partners of Serbia. Research included four main aspects: 1) Classification of Balance of Payments and International Investment Position according to the IMF Manual (BPM6); 2) Elaboration of Serbian balance of payments statistics and macroeconomic data for the period 2016–2019 (pre-pandemic); 3) Analysis and presentation of the evolution of the selected annual balance of payments statistics during the pandemic period (2020-2021); 4) Analysis and presentation of the rate of coverage of main balance of payments categories (2016-2020). The research results presented in third section reveal that deficits on major categories such as current and capital accounts still remain significant. In this regard, specific comparisons were made with 2019, the year before Covid-19 crisis, and a presentation of major Serbian trading partners is discussed briefly. At the end of July 2021, the future pattern of changes to the flows of the discussed categories based on the analysis of information from the pre-pandemic and pandemic period will significantly depend on pandemic developments in the second half of 2021 and in 2022. The pandemic is still underway and it is premature to draw any conclusions for any country. However, this research discovers and we conclude that the impact of the pandemic on Serbian balance of payments, at least through the end of 2020, was not as severe as in some other European and non-European countries. The main recommendation of the paper is therefore to maintain relative resilience of the observed Serbian balance of payments flows against potential new shocks from the ongoing pandemic. At the same time, economic po","PeriodicalId":17821,"journal":{"name":"Knowledge International Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88416735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"ANALYSIS OF REVENUE AS REPORTED IN THE ENTERPRISE’S FINANCIAL STATEMENTS","authors":"R. Ivanova","doi":"10.35120/kij4701071i","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35120/kij4701071i","url":null,"abstract":"Enterprise’s financial statements may be defined as structured presentation of the information about the financial position, financial performance and cash flows in the form of: assets; liabilities (payables); equity; revenue; expenses; cash inflows, outflows and net cash flows. Based on this information, one could analyse revenue and expenses, financial performance, financial position, cash flows and effectiveness of the overall business of the enterprise. \u0000The object studied in this publication refers to the revenue of enterprises, which apply the national accounting basis of the Republic of Bulgaria – the National Accounting Standards, and its subject – to the specific directions of the analysis and the methodologies for revenue analysis. \u0000The aim of this publication is to present the plenty of opportunities and methodological directions of the revenue analysis as reported by the enterprise’s financial statements, and in particular, the Statement of revenue and expenses. \u0000The data in the enterprise’s Statement of revenue and expenses may be used for analysis in the following methodological directions: overall evaluation of revenue; analysis of costs per revenue of BGN 100 (revenue effectiveness); analysis of net sales; analysis of revenue-based return with regard to the revenue effectiveness; analysis of net sales-based return (return of sales); analysis of return on the basis of net sales of products with regard to the total cost per products of BGN 100. \u0000In terms of the overall evaluation of enterprise’s revenue, their amount, composition, structure and dynamics are subject to analysis. Such analysis is aimed at identifying the change of revenue – in aggregate, by groups and specific types of revenue, for the current period in comparison to the reference period, both as an absolute and as a relative value. For management purposes, one can identify the average growth and increase rates of revenue for a long time period, characterise their development trends, forecast the expected sales, etc. \u0000When analysing the costs per revenue of BGN 100, one can identify the impact of the direct factors on the dynamics of this indicator. In their nature, these are the total amounts of costs and revenue of the enterprise. Their impact may be broken by groups and by specific items of enterprise’s costs and revenue. Therefore, one could define the impact strength and direction of any item of costs and revenues on the dynamics of revenue effectiveness. Based on the obtained information, the enterprise’s management is able to make timely, objective, justified and proper decisions for the management of enterprise’s revenue and its effectiveness. \u0000Costs per revenue of BGN 100 are directly related to the net revenue-based return. Therefore, the factors that affect the change of the indicator that characterises revenue effectiveness, have impact on the change of revenue-based return. \u0000The date from the Statement of revenue and expenses may be used to analyse the am","PeriodicalId":17821,"journal":{"name":"Knowledge International Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90209415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"MAPPING ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING PRACTICES IN ORGANIZATIONS IN NORTH MACEDONIA","authors":"Cvetko Smilevski, Gorazd Smilevski, Biljana Galovska, Ivan Gjorgjievski","doi":"10.35120/kij4701017s","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35120/kij4701017s","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the findings of the preliminary empirical research for mapping practices of organizational learning in organizations in North Macedonia. This research has a diagnostic character – its intention is to record emerging forms of organizational learning practices resulting from the approaches in treatment of human resources. Based on that, the team of authors will more realistically define the subject dimensions of the action research carried out by BAS Institute of Management – Bitola, titled \"Effectiveness of Action Interventions for Systemic Introduction of organizational learning in the practices of organizations in North Macedonia.\" The intention of this action research is to test in real life circumstances the feasibility and effectiveness of our integrated model of organizational learning already presented at the 13th IFKAD conference in Zagreb in 2013. The paper provides a brief overview of current research on similar topics, focusing on the findings of the preliminary empirical research – the key findings from the distribution of organizational learning practices and their effects on Peter Senge’s Five Disciplines: personal mastery and organizational wisdom; team learning and effective teamwork; mental models and organizational culture in organizational change; shared vision and strategic thinking, and system thinking and organizational intelligence.","PeriodicalId":17821,"journal":{"name":"Knowledge International Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84460333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"PARALEL ANALYSIS OF THE INVESTMENT ACTIVITY ON THE CROATIAN AND THE BULGARIAN STOCK EXCHANGES IN CONDITIONS OF EXTRAORDINARY EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SITUATION","authors":"S. Simeonov, Aneliya Peneva","doi":"10.35120/kij4701107s","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35120/kij4701107s","url":null,"abstract":"Measures imposed in mid-March 2020 to halt the spread of Covid-19 limited and halted a number of businesses and raised serious questions and unexpected uncertainty throughout economic life. With this study we aim to assess the impact of the emergency situation on the investment activity of two selected Balkan stock exchange – The Croatian and The Bulgarian in the past year since its introduction. Subject of the study are the dynamics of stock exchange activity and market liquidity in parallel for the selected stock exchanges, which can be considered on the one hand with the price indicators and on the other with the natural measures. The input of our analysis are the main broad stock exchange indices for each of the two selected stock exchanges. For ZSE - CROBEX, whose sample includes 20 companies and for BSE – BGBX-40. As a basis for the stated analysis we set the price indicators - the stock exchange indices, after which we consistently consider the primary indicators and the analytical measures for the stock exchange activity. The main goal is to track the change in stock market activity, in parallel with the reaction of stock indices. As a starting point for changes in stock market activity, we take the previous year before the emergency situation and consider the trend in the coming quarters. \u0000Based on the applied different categories of specialized measures and the conducted empirical analysis, we can highlight the following more significant conclusions: The price measures - popular stock indices and market capitalization show a more tangible dependence on the looming uncertainty of the impending pandemic before the introduction of social and economic constraints. And this is more pronounced for the Croatian stock exchange. The natural indicators of the stock exchange activity - the stock exchange volume and the number of transactions show a weaker dependence on the restrictive measures. We explain this first with their generally much greater variability than that of price measures. Secondly, this can be interpreted as the absence of panic withdrawal from stock market activity, which is observed in times of crisis and is more typical of small and low-liquid capital markets. In conclusion, we can summarize that the investment activity on the capital markets of Croatia and Bulgaria is affected to a lesser extent than some sectors of the real economy. The main problem remains the humanitarian impact on the health of the affected population.","PeriodicalId":17821,"journal":{"name":"Knowledge International Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86531016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"ESSENTIAL IMPORTANCE OF KNOWLEDGE IN NEW EXPLANATIONS OF KEY DRIVERS OF ECONOMIC GROWTH","authors":"Dragan Turanjanin, S. Cvetanović","doi":"10.35120/kij4701023t","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35120/kij4701023t","url":null,"abstract":"Knowledge commercially valorized into innovation has always played an important role in economic, and more broadly in social development. It occurs in various forms of expression and can range from highly abstract to very applicative. It is understandable that there is a wide range of knowledge between the aforementioned extremes, but in general it can be stated that all forms of knowledge have a pronounced role in the technological and economic development of countries. With the development of globalization during the last decades, the claim that knowledge is of essential importance in starting economic growth has become especially relevant and is directly related to the affirmation of so-called. new growth theories. For theorists of this direction, the possibility of manifesting non-declining returns of production factors at the aggregate level is quite realistic, primarily due to the growing application of knowledge as the primary driver of economic growth. Also, one of the conceptual starting points for endogenous explanations for growth is the view that the increase in knowledge funds is the result of purposeful decisions of economic actors and not some spontaneous activity. Thus, at the heart of the new explanations of economic growth is the view that knowledge, thanks to the properties of the unlimited growth factor, has an essential significance in its generation. Pointing to the growing importance of market valorization of knowledge into applicable technological procedures in the process of generating economic progress of countries and regions, new explications of the physiology of economic growth created at the end of the previous century paved the way for the emergence of knowledge economy. The knowledge economy is formed and expanded thanks to the resource of knowledge when it is not possible to replace it with any other factor of production. Applied knowledge is commercially valorized in product and process innovations as well as in new forms and methods of organization and forms of production management in most economic sectors, and not only in those directly related to the development of information and communication technologies. The policy of innovation, which unites scientific, technological and industrial policy into a single whole, has become an unavoidable means of stimulating economic growth g great efforts to increase the innovation of the economy, especially in the implementation of their own economic and improving national competitiveness. Recent experience at the global level shows that countries are makindevelopment strategies. In general, these development strategies are based on the messages of the new growth theory, which is based on views on the decisive role of knowledge in shaping modern economic trends. The new theory of growth claims that technological progress is the result of economic activity. In previous explanations of growth, technology was taken for granted, not as the end result of market forces. The new","PeriodicalId":17821,"journal":{"name":"Knowledge International Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77380319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"PROTECTION OF FREEDOM AND RIGHTS OF CITIZENS BEFORE THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OF THE REPUBLIC OF NORTH MACEDONIA","authors":"Temelko Risteski","doi":"10.35120/kij4701219r","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35120/kij4701219r","url":null,"abstract":"The paper analyzes the protection of freedoms and human rights before the Constitutional Court of theRepublic of North Macedonia. The constitutional framework of freedoms and rights whose protection is under thejurisdiction of the Constitutional Court of the Republic is contained in the provision of Article 110, line 3 of theConstitution. It is very narrow and covers the following human freedoms and rights: freedom of belief, conscience,thought and public expression of thought, political association and action and the prohibition of discriminationagainst citizens on the grounds of sex, race, religion, national, social and political affiliation. Such a narrowframework of freedoms and rights whose protection may be subject to proceedings before the Constitutional Court isnot in accordance with the provision of Article 50, paragraph 1 of the Constitution according to which “Everycitizen can invoke the protection of freedoms and rights established by the Constitution before the courts and beforethe Constitutional Court of the Republic of North Macedonia in a procedure based on the principles of priority andurgency.” This inconsistency creates confusion in the interpretation and application of the Constitution. Theconfusion has been somewhat removed by Article 51 of the Rules of Procedure of the Constitutional Court, whichaccepts the narrowed constitutional framework. But the Rules of Procedure are bylaws that must be fully based onthe constitutional provisions and derive from them.The second chapter of the paper analyzes the procedure for protection of human rights and freedoms before theConstitutional Court of the Republic. From the analysis of the work of the Constitutional Court in the procedures forprotection of human rights and freedoms, it can be concluded that the citizens do not have much trust in theConstitutional Court. In this regard, there are indications that the Constitutional Court views the work on these casesas a secondary, less important matter. Therefore, he does not pay due attention to them which is opposed to efforts toensure effective protection of human rights in a democratic world.Finally, the third chapter of the paper analyzes the need to introduce a constitutional complaint, ie a lawsuit in thelegal system of the Republic of Northern Macedonia. This chapter points out the division of the expert public in theRepublic regarding the need to introduce this legal remedy in the system of constitutional protection of human rightsand freedoms. A comparative review of this issue is then given by listing the countries in which this remedy hasbeen introduced. After the comparative review, the position of the author regarding the introduction of this legalremedy in the Macedonian legal system is presented. According to the author, the introduction of a constitutionalcomplaint or lawsuit will be a particularly major reform in the protection of human rights in the Republic of NorthMacedonia. Its introduction will significantly contribut","PeriodicalId":17821,"journal":{"name":"Knowledge International Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89323366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}