The period from 2007 until today has been characterized by two extreme events: a) an economic crisis of global extent and reach; and b) rapid and powerful reactions by individual countries and regions of the world in response to those disturbances, keeping in mind the consequences of the...

The competitiveness of a national economy is an important determinant in its international standing. In addition, the degree of competitiveness achieved determines the chances of each national economy for lasting and stable growth and development. The level achieved, the success generated and...

Economic growth and social inclusion under conditions of ever greater transparency, and the direction of national economies toward global events, is a process that is relentlessly, unstoppably moving forward, and which is becoming even more intense and all-encompassing. How Croatia, a small...

In terms of its effects so far the global economic crisis is stronger and deeper than the economic disturbances at the time of the Great Depression. Additionally, it takes place under the conditions of a much higher level of connection and complexity of interrelations compared to the events in...

The current major economic crisis, the deepest economic disturbance since the Great Depression of 1929-1933, with a powerful financial upheaval in the capital markets in the United States. In 2008, it quickly expanded into the other parts of the world, especially in Europe and the Far East, and...