Diplomacy, particularly efficient economic diplomacy, is an important factor in managing economic crises. Its role is especially important for the improvement of the balance of payments, for the accomplishment of development project with the help of foreign net investments and with this the...

This paper outlines how commercial diplomacy and its activities could help fighting current economic crisis in Croatia. Commercial diplomacy is defined as a support to home country's business sector for the sake of national development (Rana, 2000). Based on the situation analysis and...

This article provides a summary of the concept chosen and the efforts undertaken so far in order to establish a viable and reliable system of Croatian commercial diplomacy serving well and going hand in hand with the needs of Croatian exporters and foreign investors in Croatia. In the...

Increased globalisation has played a key role in shaping recent trends and concerns in the economic diplomacy of African states. African states are increasingly interested in becoming more relevant actors in the global economy. The economic diplomacy of African states is primarily a diplomacy of...

Export support represents one of the many activities in the framework of commercial diplomacy. It has been used by governments for decades in order to boost exports and, consequently, economic growth. However, is governmental involvement in supporting exporters justified? Despite some differing...

This paper examines dynamic interactions between foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth using panel-data cointegration and causality tests. We present our results for 34 Eurasian countries for which previous research on this subject has not hitherto been performed. We find that that...

With the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers, Europe and the USA have become engulfed by sovereign debt crises, a problem that many felt no longer applied to the advanced economies. The US sub-prime loan crisis caused so much damage to the whole world, resulting in the global economy experiencing a...