The effects of the financial crisis that began in 2007 are still being felt in the global economy. Despite the fact that its low point was apparently reached, the economic recovery will last long, with an economic growth below potential and a gradual decrease of unemployment over several years....

This article aims to identify the differences between the Narula’s model regarding the five stages of investment development path and the economic reality. In other words, we try to determine if the model presented by Narula reflectes what is happening on the economic environment of a country...

Each country has its specific features and because of that, the evolutions of some indicators such as inflation, real exchange rate, current account, GDP, competitiveness, employment, and others, as well as trends determinants of real economic imbalances and improvement of divergence differs...

This paper presents some effects of the current international economic and financial crisis on the main macroeconomic variables. For this purpose, are valued the direct and indirect influences, on short and mediumterm, of the crisis on direct investment, on employment, on the non-governmental...