The current contagion that has rapidly spread all over the world mobilised impressive financial and sanitary resources in most of the affected countries. However, in the majority of cases these measures seem insufficient or inefficient, as the number of cases has exploded, while the increase in...

After more than 15 years of transition, some of CIS countries face serious problems on their labour markets, in spite of significant economic growth in recent years, with weak job creation, employment contraction, decreasing activity rates, high unemployment, declining industries and labour...

For the 2006 Easter (the date has a clear meaning) the National Geographic published an unknown manuscript, aimed to make the Christianity tremble from its foundations. The event benefited from the usual advertisement agrave; l'ameacute;ricaine, in order to hit to the highest possible degree the...

In Romania, a combination of population decline, slow job creation and early retirement resulted in employment decreasing significantly in the 1990s, although the employment rate has stayed above average levels in the New Member States. Industrial restructuring and land restitution have induced...

The Syrian economy is confronted with an increasing pressure coming from the supply side of the labour market, generated by the accumulated surplus in the public sector, the unemployed persons looking for a job, the new entrants on the labour market, respectively the expected increase of the...

The paper represents a simulation exercise of the possible evolution of Yugoslav economy if the federation would have gone a peaceful transition to a market economy and democracy, similar to the other countries belonging to the former socialist group; we use the synthetic control method to...

In this paper we propose an index for measuring the reforms adopted in various sectors. As compared to the existing methodologies, the proposed tool has the advantage of quantifying the overall progress of reforms in five different areas (labour market, business environment, public finance,...

The paper discusses the main principles of gradual implementation of the MTEF through the iterative adoption of the Medium-Term Fiscal Framework, followed by the implementation of the Medium-Term Budgetary Framework, and completed by the adoption of the Medium-Term Performance Framework. A...

We analyse in this paper the main achievements of Romania during the period of ten years since joining the European Union. The analysis is based on a proposed Index of Structural Changes constructed that express the overall progress in five areas: business environment, labour market, state...