Following a five-year period of uninterrupted growth and reaching a historical peak in 2007, world foreign direct investment flows (FDI) declined in 2008, in large part as a result of the global financial and economic crisis. The European Union (EU) as a major source and recipient of FDI flows...

In the current debate on services offshoring, the New EU member states (NMS) have focused increasingly the attention of economists and politicians, as well as the public at large. Particularly in the light of the recent waves of EU enlargement these countries have been considered as highly...

In March 2013, the EU and Japan launched negotiations for a comprehensive free trade agreement (FTA). The EU also announced starting of similar negotiations with the United States. Japan decided to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership under negotiation among 11 developed and developing nations in...

This paper aims to highlight some of the recent developments in global trade in services. It sets out three main objectives. Firstly, to analyse the increasing interdependence between global trade flows in goods and services against the background of rapid expansion of global production networks...

This paper aims to highlight some of the recent developments in global trade in services. It sets out three main objectives. Firstly, to analyse the increasing interdependence between global trade flows in goods and services against the background of rapid expansion of global production networks...

Since the mid-2000s food prices have been on an upward trend. In the first months of 2011, agricultural commodity prices reached an all-time high, fuelling fears about the imminent outbreak of a new food crisis, similar to the 1973/74 and 2006/08 ones. Behind concerns about increased price...

<B>Romanian Abstract: Pornind de la datele furnizate de Organizația Mondială a Comerțului (OMC) și de alte organizații economice internaționale relevante, prima parte a articolului analizează evoluţia comerţului internaţional cu bunuri și servicii în anul 2013 și reliefează...</b>

Romanian Abstract: În baza datelor publicate de Organizația Mondială a Comerțului (OMC) și de alte organizații economice internaționale relevante, articolul analizează principalele tendințe conturate în evoluţia comerţului mondial cu bunuri și servicii în anul 2014 și evaluează...

The steady spread of preferential trade agreements is not a new phenomenon in the multilateral trading system. Striking is, however, the outstanding dynamics of the new bilateral and regional initiatives among the traditional trading powers - the EU, U.S. and Japan - in the most recent period....

increasingly drawn the attention of economists and politicians, as well as the public. Particularly in the light of the recent waves of EU enlargement these countries have been considered as highly attractive locations for offshored services both from a European and global perspective. While a...