In line with the EU's goal of becoming a knowledge-based society, education and lifelong learning will also feature prominently on the agenda of the European Year. EU should use the current economic crisis to develop strategic goals both at European and national level and improve conditions for...

The present global economic situation led to a re-consideration of the place held by human resources professional formation and development within an organization and on a larger scale of the place that a country's labour force development and specialization should hold for overcoming the...

This paper is a theoretical approach of managing open-ended investment funds (mutual funds) in the current crisis. This concerns the organization and operation of a mutual fund, the investment decision in the environment and certainly uncertain direction and placement of funds by mutual funds...

The effects of the financial and economic crises are observed at the Romanian public budget level, too. The study examines the main developments in the context of the crisis and offers some solutions on the necessary measures at the fiscal and budgetary policies level to alleviate the negative...

The term money laundering comes from the alcohol prohibition in the U.S. when, in the 1920s, acquaintances groups Mafia leaders in Chicago, in particular, have opened public laundries, and to hide and blend funds with money from legitimate trade alcohol and other criminal activities. Although...

Romania's integration in the European Union brought about some major changes in our banking system. One of the direct consequences is the fierce competition between banks for supremacy on the market. According to this, the Romanian banks saw in the SMEs sector a true potential for reaching their...

The concept of bancassurance has French origin but can be seen in German as Allfinanz and in English as Financial Services. The emergence of bancassurance concept can not be primarily attributed to any banks or insurance institutions. Approaching the two sectors was due to mutations occurring in...

Economics education is circumscribe a multiplicative feedback through expansion, diversification, intensive interaction between the economy and education, as being in an economic perspective on education, along with sociological, psychological, technological, religious, family, public, etc....

The aim is to try to solve the dilemma if could be predictable exchange crisis from 2007 in the conditions of market globalization, including stock exchange, under the risk of system. In such circumstances, the value judgments based on those three major developments (The Big Three) recorded in...

One of the most developed and evolving areas promising for the future, which is already recently a subject of intensive research, seems to be the area of ambient intelligence. We present some recent results and contemplations about how this area could be exploited also for creating intelligent...