Since their beginning, human beings had started to harass environment so that they have turned into a real danger for environment during the last century. On the one hand, man extracted out of environment a large amount of hardly regenerating resources implying its gradual impoverishment; on the...

The paper examines the theoretical basis of fair trade as justice. Grounded largely in the work of Amartya Sen, it looks at the origins, motivations, and elements of fair trade. Fair trade is examined as a potentially transformational form of justice. The intellectual merit of this paper is to...

This paper is a comparative study of the role of agriculture in economic development in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. Popular notions of economic duality and agricultural squeeze in sub-Saharan Africa are re-examined, and new explanations in terms of agrarian structures and resource...

This milestone provides a broad overview of model development under Work Package 205 of the WWWforEurope project. It describes briefly the challenge of modelling combined economic, ecological and financial systems and sets out a series of objectives for modelling the socio-economic transition...

This article is devoted to the analysis of the competitiveness of economic systems (capitalism and socialism) in the years 1950-1989. The author assumed that competitiveness is the ability of the surveyed economies to build prosperity. Therefore, to compare the competitiveness of both...

Since its creation, through the establishment in 1958 of the two sectoral funds - European Social Fund (ESF) and the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF), Cohesion Policy has acted as a payment mechanism for redistribution of budgetary contributions between Member States in...

This work aims to present the exact thinking and action of the Romanian Communist leaders that had as declared purpose the Romanian societyâ€(tm)s propseprity company. This falls into the line drawn by the Communists, but in the case of Romania the ambitions were far above the country\'s...

The regional policy represents the expression of the European Union’s solidarity with less developed countries and regions, aiming at reducing the significant economic, social and territorial disparities that still exist between Europe’s regions. Being an investment policy, EU regional...

The research paper is focused on the analysis of two ways of strengthening the regional integration in the Central and Eastern Europe – through the Cohesion policy instruments and cooperation among stock exchanges. Substantial benefits from the regional integration through cohesion policy...

This paper discusses the goal conflict between social protection and economic growth as well as employment. Taking the German economy as an example for the large continental economies of Old Europe, it analyzes twenty mechanisms that affect the fundamentals of the economy negatively and imply...