Background: Constant integration of digital technologies in economic and social life is rapidly and significantly shaping and changing our environment and ourselves. To function in such a world, even in daily routines, it is necessary to possess certain digital competencies. Objectives: This...

This paper uses Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model formulations in order to determine the performance levels of 16 departments of the University of Thessaly. Particularly, the constant returns to scale (CRS) and variable returns to scale (VRS) models have been applied alongside with bootstrap...

In the current decentralization reforms and severe budget constraints faced by Eastern European countries, we consider as imperative to analyze the effectiveness of structural funds management at regional level. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to estimate the technical efficiency of...

In the present paper an effort will be made to show empirically that education spending reduces inequality of income distribution. Author supports the view of (José De Gregorio and Jong-Wha Lee, 2002) using a different model for the period 1995-2006. Panel data are elaborated by means of Eviews...

The purpose of the paper is to analyze and present the self-employment needs in some European countries, being the result of a survey realized in Austria, Finland, Poland and Romania in the Leonardo da Vinci program “ Self-Employment - Guidance and Counselling for Self-Employment”. The aim...

Agribusiness is the buzzword these days and is the main force behind the commercialization of the agriculture. Contract farming, One stop shop, Opening of the retail stores, starting of the terminal markets, establishment of processing units etc. has proved that agribusiness is very much...

The common agricultural policy is one of the most integrated and oldest communitarian policies, considered the stimulus for the European unification. The general objectives of the common agricultural policy have been initially established by the Treaty of Rome of 1957 on the European Economic...

The geographic structure of the Magharib countries necessitates its political and economic partnership. However, there were many hindrances that curtailed further mutual benefits in the past decades. That minimized its economic cooperation in many ways. The emergence of the WTO adds to questions...

Does Northern Europe possess unique characteristics that cannot disappear and do not need to disappear, or will globalisation inevitably result in uniformity, divested businesses, lower wages and huge pressure on social security provisions? This is one of the main questions addressed by this...