The present article advances the concept of sustainable development at the regional level. A brief review of the literature on sustainable development, be it from primary or secondary sources, reveals that there is a relatively small number of studies in this area at the national level....

This paper investigates relationship between FDI and current account (CA) in Pakistan using the Johansen-Juselius cointegration technique and the Granger causality test. The study results indicate that FDI and CA are cointegrated and thus exhibit a reliable long run relationship. The Granger...

In this article I followed two directions simultaneously. The first direction analyzes the structure of the European labor market, the evolution of the unemployment and the relationship between the labor market and globalization in the economic downturn context. The second one evaluates the...

The wage gap issue as well as that of income inequality has been a key topic in economics. The supervision of these gaps is essential in terms of labour stimulation and orientation in order to support social progress and to maintain the economic and social cohesion. Starting from a positive...

Althougt at first sight the crisis appears as a disturbance of the regular course of economic, social and organizational, this is a necessary step that turns old structures and relations to some superior functional. Under these conditions, hawever, it is absolutely necessary that the situation...

The main objective of this paper is to highlight the need for promoting a new vision regarding competitiveness mostly in the context of amplifying the effects and the complexity of the nature of crisis manifested now on the international level (economic, environment, demographic, value and moral...

Although three years have passed since the onset of the deepest recession from 1929, the most world economies are still fragile, the slipping into another recession being imminent for many of them. “It is a sin to waste a crisis” without learning something of the causes that generated it,...

Until few years ago, the economic growth was something perfect normal, part of an era marked by the transformation speed. Normality itself has been transformed and we currently are influenced by other rules, unknown yet, which should answer the question: “How do we return to the economic...

The scientific approach of the authors is considering a review of the impact of public debt on the Romanian economy in conditions of economic crisis. Installation of global economic crisis caused major changes in economy all states including the Romanian economy. Issue debt, subject of...

This article aims to show that the great Japanese economic crisis of the late 80s followed the same pattern as all the financial crises known over time worldwide. After a period with a remarkable advance after the Second World War, the Japanese archipelago experienced a major crisis. The loan,...