The sustainable development requires to be implementing on the efficiencyprinciples of the sustainable development, which has to be appreciated depending on abenchmark system. This study performs an analysis of the sustainable performance ofRomanian regions and reveals disparities compared to...

China‘s Western Development Strategy (WDS) has been carried out since 1999 withremarkable achievements, whereby Western China also experienced a rapid and stable developmentduring the past decade. This paper analyzes policy actions and effects of WDS. The findingsindicate that Western...

The paper analyses Romania’s competitiveness and knowledge-based economyin an EU comparative context for the 2006-2007 period. The main compared pillar-indices are the following: global competitiveness index;higher education and training; technological readiness; business sophistication;...

ABSTRACT. Studies have proven that organizations in order to be vital, economically valuable andprofitable in the market have to adapt to the external environment. The success and the failure ofmany companies depend on the factors which affect their activities. Without taking into account...

It is large consensus that in the today world economy, companies, oriented towardsthe creation and utilization of knowledge have a competitive advantage. In this sense, it becomes anecessity to continuously monitor the state of research, development and innovation activities andto assess their...

The paper aims to study the causal relationship between foreign investmentinflows and industrial sub-sectors growth pattern of the Indian economy during the postliberalization period (1996-97:Q1 to 2009-10:Q2). The stationarity of the variables beingchecked than Granger causality test is...

Productivity is the synthetic expression of the efficiency with which productionfactors are being used and mattes the competitiveness of economic systems. This study aims toanalyze agricultural productivity growth among Romanian regions. To identify the factorsthat influenced agricultural labour...

The overall aim of this study is to identify the strengths and the opportunities,the weaknesses and the threats of information society that could enable the national and theinternational economies to achieve continuous improvement of quality of life both for currentand future generations,...

Development is the upward directional movement of society from lesser togreater levels of energy, efficiency, quality, productivity, complexity, comprehension,creativity, enjoyment and accomplishment. These attributes are both the means for achievingdevelopment as well as its most characteristic...