Natural Resources and Manufacturing Sector
Abstract: Serbia has certain potential in using natural resources, which was the base for strong industrialization of the country during the period after World War II. Having large deposits of metals such as copper and lead-zinc ore, and using huge resources of the brown coal deposits, Serbian manufacturing structure was predominantly founded on the metal-processing and thermo energy industry, processing industries such as food and beverage, textile and leather industry, as well as the engineering industry located in few industrial centres. After destructive deindustrialization during the 1990s, Serbian manufacturing sector try to recover mostly within those industries for which the foreign capital was interested in, both through privatization or new investments. The natural resources exploitation was and still is a subject of interest for many foreign companies, but still not having too much interest in renewable energy resources exploatation. Although the labour-intensive industries and industries relayed on cheap but qualified labour became the base of the contemporary Serbian industry, there is a potential in new industries such as software and ITC industry.
engleski
2022
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Keywords: Natural resources, Mineral resources, Energy resources, Deindustrialization, Processing industry, Software and ICT industry