In present, the economic development is a key preoccupation of the policy makers and general public; the attention is focused not only to the economic growth, but to the ways of the development towards sustainable development. In the last time, considerable efforts have gone into work on...

Globalization – the growing integration of economies and societies around the world – has been one of the most hotly-debated topics in international economics over the past few years. Rapid growth and poverty reduction in some countries that were poor 20 years ago have been positive aspects...

In the OECD Handbook on Economic Globalization, the term “globalization” is used to describe” the increasing internationalization of financial markets and of markets for goods and services. Globalization refers above all to a dynamic and multidimensional process of economic integration...

One of the important challenges of the European Union (EU) at the beginning of the 21st century is its enlargement. After the integration of the 12 countries in 2005 and 2007, the EU continues its strategy for stability, security and prosperity in Europe. The new candidate countries, at...

The Lisbon Strategy Targets are presented and assessed as accordingly to the domains of the structural indicators, the common indicators created to measure the progress towards reaching these objectives: Economic performance; Employment; Research, Innovation and education; Economic reform; Social...

This study tries to quantify the impact of transition in Eastern countries in an early stage on the cost-side and also on the benefit-side. The exposition plan includes: 1) Introduction; 2) Structural distortions; 3) Transition versus stability.