ABSTRACT
Many of Slovenia’s small factories are operated by people who also engage in farming; and many of them produce goods for export. Many of Slovenia’s small factories are located in the countryside, their rural location being made possible by the presence of an unusually well-developed infrastructure, including, in this small and compact country, a dense road network. Slovenia is fortunate to possess an unusually large number of small manufacturing businesses, many of which are located in the countryside. The expansion of small and medium-scale enterprises is quite inadequate on its own as a prescription for accelerated economic growth. The north-western extremity of the boundary between Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovonia lies only fifty kilometres south of the Slovenian– Croatian frontier. These are disturbing geographical realities, the more so considering that the UN arms embargo applies just as much to Slovenia as it does to the other former constituent republics of Yugoslavia.
