Economic growth is an increase of the results of an economic system in a particular time and space. Economic results are synthetically described by GNP or real GDP adjusted with the deflator on the whole or per capita. Sustainable development is the kind of development that satisfies the present...

The number of victims made by the tsunami in Southeast Asia is frightening. The available data indicate over 300.000 victims, to whom we must add several hundred thousands of injured people and over 1.75 million people left homeless. The survivors have to deal with the crude truth: the loss of...

The paper analyses the presuppositions (often implicit) the actual quantitative and logical modelling is based on. In the context, some points of view are proposed, aimed at to eliminate or reduce the incertitude and vagueness generated by the actual way of understanding the macroeconomic modelling.

Urban systems are becoming increasingly complex as urban economies, social and political structures and norms, infrastructure systems and technologies evolve. Therefore, the development of operational urban simulation models is required in order to achieve an improvement of the quality of...

Deşi se utilizează frecvent, competitivitatea naţională este încă o noţiune ambiguă, în sensul că nu există nici o definiţie unanim acceptată în literatura de specialitate, ci numeroase abordări. În acest articol vom încerca să contribuim la clarificarea conceptului de...

Unul dintre avantajele integrării îl reprezintă creşterea gradului de deschidere a economiei către restul lumii, cu efecte benefice asupra fluxurilor de investiţii străine directe receptate, fluxurilor bilaterale de forţă de muncă, productivităţii muncii etc.. În acest context,...

În contextul cerinţelor de performanţă impuse de dezvoltarea societăţii bazate pe cunoaştere, privim proprietatea industrială ca pe o pârghie importantă a acesteia. Prin urmare, în acest studiu se prezintă (comparativ) sistemul drepturilor de proprietate industrială şi protecţia...

The study is based on the critical observations that the competitive market forces alone are not able to assure the convergence with the developed countries. 

The study defines the three types of convergence – institutional, nominal and real ones –, the connection among them and their main measurement indicators.