In context of increased concerns regarding the territorial inequalities, the research aims to outline a comprehensive picture of the level and dynamics of regional disparities in Romania, both at county and regional level, in light of the recent economic crisis. The main novelty of our research...

In consideration of the Lisbon Agenda, the Romanian Government drew up the National Programme for Reform for 2007-2010, which established national priorities, and ways and tools to achieve economic reform and growth. Transition in Romania implied a complex and extensive system of regulations and...

Globalisation and the knowledge-based society generate multiple challenges and opportunities with respect to initial education for all and continuing training of labour force. The learning paradigm changes with respect to contents and amplitude of the learning process, and mainly its...

The Europe of Knowledge means shifting to a new stage of identifying, redefining and satisfying the exigencies related to human capital. Among the basic competencies, the language ones shall play a more important role for all age groups, and all categories of jobs and professions in the...

In Romania, the bond market was set up later, comparatively to the equity market. This market is in a development process, but the international financial crisis has affected even the interest of investors in bonds. The secondary municipal bond market is not a very liquid market because these...

The economic and financial crisis became apparent in Romania somewhatdelayed but persists and is aggravated due to the weak sustainability of the economic growthrecorded in the last few years. The considerable diminishment of output because of reducedexports and domestic demand compression for...

The economic dimension of copyright-based industries sector in Romania is becoming of higher interest, on the one hand, for policy-makers taking into consideration its increasing contribution to GDP, employment, foreign trade and investment and, on the other hand, as a multidimensional vector...

The existence of a heavier layer of greenhouse effect gases at the level of theentire planet triggered significant climate changes. The paper intends to present the mainenvironmental indicators elaborated by various specialised international bodies, and themodels used by different governmental...

The strongest determination of external labour mobility is given by the economicdevelopment level from the country of destination and the superior equivalent income that might beobtained by wage employment or entrepreneurship, as compared with the country of origin. Labourimmigrants represent...

The economic crisis affected the size and quality of employment in most economic and social activities, but in different proportions. The health care sector faced a lower dynamics of employment diminution, but the personnel flows to better paid jobs continued at a higher rate than before the...