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Good governance is a key component of policies and reforms for poverty reduction, for national and global security as well as for the promotion of democracy and human rights. Many developing countries, particularly the least developed countries, are interested in created facilities for foreign...
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In this paper, we intended to establish a grouping of the voluntary pension funds in Romania by risk levels using cluster analysis. The investment policy of the voluntary pension funds is influenced by a variety of factors: the taxpayers’ risk profile, the capital market conditions, and the...
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Financial crisis have become a main topic of researchers, especially after the recent global crisis started in 2007. Although the topic is highly relevant for current research, crisis models widely used were not able to predict the big crash. In the present paper we focus on surveying the...
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Economic activity in a mixed economy is shared among different kinds of organizations: private for-profit, private non-profit and governmental organizations, which are closely interdependent among them. For a long time the private non-profit sector has been considered as a marginal sector that...
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Alexandru D. Xenopol (1847-1920), a leading figure of the Romanian intellectual tradition of the turn of the century – academician, economist, philosopher, historian, educator, sociologist and writer – has remained in the universal cultural memory as a tireless promoter of the economic...
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The actual economic crisis reveals the problems within the public educational system. The malfunctions of this sector are augmented by the special significance of education for society and economic system. The modern theories of human capital emphasize the state’s important role in financing...
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institutions that define any economic system. Within society, people are perceptive to a system of general rules that provides … incentives and constraints for human behavior. Institutions' and human action's mutuality, and also its economic and political … implications, explain the essential importance of institutions in economic science and the institutional approach viability. …
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The role played by endogenous growth models in growth literature might be analyzed from two perspectives. In the first place, is it emphasized the necessity to replace the hypothesis of perfect competition with monopolistic competition in every mathematical model. Secondly, there is no...
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The study and comprehension of institutions – viewed as written and unwritten constraints (rules) initiated by people … economies and societies. The framework inspired by institutions to which people dedicated maximum energy and talent also …
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Economic policies and, particularly, fiscal policies are not designed and implemented in an “empty space”: the structural characteristics of the economic systems, the institutional architecture of societies, the cultural paradigm and the power relations between different social groups define...
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