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 uses standard econometric techniques and the Logistics Performance Index calculated by The World Bank for evaluating the impact of several key macroeconomic variables on the quality of the logistics sector from 42 countries and regions. The regression results and the graphs have...

The strategies and the policies for increasing the occupation level of the manpower and diminishing the unemployment are approached in an integrated manner, in a close correlation with other programmatic or conceptual documents having as unitary objective the economic growth and the social...

The continuous liberalization of the international trade and foreign investments has established a political framework which promote the economical international relations. The liberalization has allowed the new technologies to be used on the international markets. A lot of countries become more...

In the convergence programme approved by the Hungarian government in September 2006, the "overriding objective" was to promote real convergence. This paper analyses the problems surrounding real convergence, in light of the broader correlations of economic growth relying heavily on the results...

In the complex connection process of national economies to global economy flows, an important role has the foreign trade, which in recent decades has become, in the market economy conditions, one of the factors determining for economic growth. Foreign trade, as a separate branch of the national...

Paper is focused on identifying of the minimal set of the necessary and sufficient logical attributes of the sustainable financing source.

In the context of the performance requirements implied by the development of a knowledge based economy, we look at industrial property as an important tool thereof

This paper focuses on the role of institutions in enhancing economic growth. Attention to the institutional environment has become increasingly common in economic history and it has deeply enriched our understanding of how economies develop through time. Economic development is no longer...

The severity of the global financial crisis has highlighted major structural limits not only at the level of credit institutions' risk management strategies, but also in the financial safety net. There were very few rules at the onset of the international financial crisis, to determine the...