The 2007/08 financial crisis results in two major problems that issue difficult challenges for the economic theory and policy. The first challenge is the rise of unemployment notwithstanding growing imbalances of budget deficits. The second is the monetary and financial instability threatening...

The Japanese economy has continued to grow, albeit at a low rate, through the drastic changes in the Japanese economic system. The global crisis has seriously affected the Japanese economy, despite it causing only slight damage to the banking sector. The current global economic crisis will have...

The study incorporates an analysis of the performance of higher education system (the Bologna Model) from the perspective of evaluations made by companies. The main objective is to identify the competence areas required from fresh graduates for sustaining the contention of business enterprises...

In 2008, the world was struck by the largest economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Th e collapse of several branches of industry, growing rates of unemployment and uncertainty also aff ected the fl ow of tourism. While for some tourist destinations, the decrease of the tourist...

To determine the impact of the economic downturn that officially hit Slovenia in 2009 on the number, purpose, type and budgets of business events held at Slovenian natural spas. The study’s aim is to develop guidelines in the field of business events management at Slovenian natural spas. The...

After 3 years of collapse, foreign direct investments (FDI) have reached a minimum level of the last 9 years, in 2011, meaning 1, 94 billion Euros, below the 2003 level. In the first 10 months of 2012, foreign direct investments have reached a level of 1,27 billion Euros, surpassing the similar...

This chapter opens with an overview on social exclusion, providing two brief summaries on the main approaches to the discussion of it, and on its interaction with the economic crisis,and the labour market structure. The first one focuses on the distinction between a static and a longitudinal...

During the last few years the entire world experienced one of the most turmoil period in its history. Economic crisis is the most traumatic event leading to a substantial deterioration in the quality of life of the household. Unemployment, inflation rate increasing, freezing or decreasing of the...

This book provides a panoramic approach to social exclusion, with emphasis on structural causes (education, health, accidents) and on short term causes connected with the crisis which started in 2008. The picture emerging, based on econometric analysis, is that the crisis has widened the risk of...

The international financial crisis has inevitably felt in the the Romanian economy influences transmitted through the various paths. The connection with the international economic flows has generated negative implications both in the economy and in various regions, as evidenced by analysis of...