The student is the person who, through certain native or gained qualities, assimilates the information and knowledge provided by the Professor. He is the main beneficiary of the educational system, because the main educational effects are registered at his level: the social effects (the...

This study seeks to determine if, in Romania, a relation in the short and / or long run between economic growth and energy consumption by fuel can be established. To this end, the authors used time series for the period 1965-2007 over which a set of tests were realized: a test to verify the...

A well known truth to both the experts and the population states that health should be seen as an investment too in the most important factor of production, the human factor. In the following paper we analyzed the economic efficiency in the sanitary field using some specific indicators such as...

Reform of health care systems in the member states of the Council of Europe has been a virtually continuous process which seeks to reconcile the often contradictory aims of maximizing quality, efficiency and equality of access as well as guaranteeing the viability of the system, against a...

The issue of healthcare economics analysis should be started from the concept and the particularities within this important area of economic life - social. In the present conditions of limited resources and the needs that continue to multiply and diversify, in the context of stiff competition in...

In the present days, we consider that it will be very interesting and useful to do some research on the agricultural sector (distinct from the industrial and other sectors of economic activity), although the process of globalization in modern economies determine trends converged approach and...

It is known that the efficiency of medical services is a broad social and economic concept, influenced by both numerical-quantitative and non-numerical-qualitative factors. The dynamic nature of technical progress and the accelerated pace of scientific discoveries in the field of health,...

This paper aims to bring into attention the concept of renewable energy investments’ efficiency and to study one of the three concepts related to it, namely environmental efficiency of investments in renewable energy. The analysis is undertaken at macroeconomic level for several countries in...

The present paper analyzes the overall efficiency at the regional level in health care system in the EU states members which joined after 2004 in a time period between 2003 and 2005. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), which is a method proven to be useful in a diverse variety of applications in...

This paper brings into attention a new method for analyzing renewable energy investments efficiency, a procedure called Principal Component Analysis. Authors aim to provide an adequate background for this method, before applying it to a set of data concerning renewable energy. The paper begins...