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... Creating favorable environment, stimulating the development of social economy. Figure 7 shows the trend of the national funding for the last five years. If we regard 2015 as an exception as in this year the state was able to provide a much higher financing compared to the recent periods, we could see a mild but steady increase in the resources targeting social economy. ...

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