This publication presents a cross-country overview of labour market trends and challenges and the employability of human capital in the six Eastern partners - Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine - during two decades of turbulent transition. These six countries, all of...

The Syrian economy is currently undertaking a set of measures to introduce market oriented reforms aimed to change the past system of central planning and to adopt socially oriented rules. The envisaged reforms are supposed to bring efficiency of economic activities, to withdraw the state from...

The Syrian economy is currently undertaking a set of measures to introduce market oriented reforms aimed to change the past system of central planning and to adopt socially oriented rules. The envisaged reforms are supposed to bring efficiency of economic activities, to withdraw the state from...

The relativity of poverty determines a certain degree of specificity in case of each country where the phenomenon is considerably spread over the population. In transitional countries poverty is determined to a large extent by the structural changes undertaken for adopting market rules in the...

The monetary integration of EU countries raises the issue of completing the enlargement process of the union by integrating former socialist countries not only economically, but also monetarily. Although unanimously recognized as a two step process, the full EU integration of transitional...

Trade deficits are caused by the balances between saving and investment and the effects of those balances on international flows of capital. Generally, there are three primary sources of the trade deficit: a decline in saving/GDP ratio; fluctuations in the business cycles; investment...

Romania started the transition process by adopting a gradualist strategy for implementing its economic reforms, most of which being carried out independently and not through a concrete and cohesive policy package. The dynamics of restructuring on the labor market is analyzed by the Index of...

In many developing and emerging countries, the alarm signals sent by specialists regarding the effects of the global crisis were not taken seriously because these economies were not financially integrated with the world system and consequently, they would not be contaminated. The same confidence...

The emerging economic and financial globalization in recent years has been much more rapid that our understanding of all ingredients associated with this phenomenon of globalization. As a result, the impact that the current crisis may have on the global economy is still uncertain, since an...