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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">jssi</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Journal of Security and Sustainability Issues</journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="epub">2029-7017</issn>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">2029-7017</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>LKA</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">JSSI9223</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.9770/jssi.2019.9.2(23)</article-id>
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        <article-title>Assessment of Convergence Processes of Social-Economic Security Indicators in Latvian Municipalities</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Smirnov</surname>
            <given-names>Andrey</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:smirnovs75@inbox.lv">smirnovs75@inbox.lv</email>
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        <aff id="j_jssi_aff_000">Daugavpils University, Parades Str. 1-331, LV-5401 Daugavpils, Latvia</aff>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Lavrinenko</surname>
            <given-names>Olga</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:olga.lavrinenko@du.lv">olga.lavrinenko@du.lv</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_jssi_aff_001"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_jssi_aff_001">Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Daugavpils University, Parades Str. 1-421, Daugavpils, LV-5401, Latvia</aff>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Ohotina</surname>
            <given-names>Alina</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:alina.ohotina@du.lv">alina.ohotina@du.lv</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_jssi_aff_002"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_jssi_aff_002">Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Daugavpils University, Parades Str. 1-421, Daugavpils, LV-5401, Latvia</aff>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Shmarlouskaya</surname>
            <given-names>Halina</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:galina.shmarlovskaya@gmail.com">galina.shmarlovskaya@gmail.com</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_jssi_aff_003"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_jssi_aff_003">Sociology and Economy Department, Daugavpils University, Parades Str. 1-331, LV-5401 Daugavpils, Latvia,
International Business Department, Belarusian State Economic University, 2
20070, 26, Partizanski Av, Minsk, Republic of Belarus</aff>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Betlej</surname>
            <given-names>Alina</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:alinabetlej@kul.lublin.pl">alinabetlej@kul.lublin.pl</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_jssi_aff_004"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_jssi_aff_004">Institute of Sociology, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Al. Racławickie 14, 20-950 Lublin, Poland</aff>
      </contrib-group>
      <volume>9</volume>
      <issue>2</issue>
      <fpage>663</fpage>
      <lpage>674</lpage>
      <pub-date pub-type="ppub">
        <day>30</day>
        <month>12</month>
        <year>2019</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>30</day>
        <month>12</month>
        <year>2019</year>
      </pub-date>
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      <abstract>
        <p>The aim of the research is to assess convergence processes of a social-economic security indicator in Latvian municipalities and its components in the period 2011–2015, calculated as an integral indicator on the basis of primary statistical indicators. The relevance of the research is determined by the fact that social-economic security establishes not only the sustainable economic development of the country as a whole, but also the state of protection from internal and external threats. Municipalities, implementing their autonomous functions, are primary guarantors of social-economic security of the people. The convergence of social-economic security of municipalities implies the process of their convergence in time according to the values of the level of social-economic security.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <label>Keywords</label>
        <kwd>investment climate</kwd>
        <kwd>investment potencial</kwd>
        <kwd>investment security</kwd>
        <kwd>sustainability</kwd>
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        <label>JEL</label>
        <kwd>L26</kwd>
        <kwd>M21</kwd>
        <kwd>O11</kwd>
        <kwd>R11</kwd>
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