Regional economic development records are not the same in the geographic regions of Romania, the issue representing a cause for discrepancies in living standards, quality of life, on one hand, and propensity for the economic sector, on the other hand. Without a proper involvement of the state...

The choice of location for a retail shop is a complex process that determines the economic success of the store. The right choice depends on accessibility, purchasing power, demand structure and the competitive situation. The latter factors have considerable impact in the long run when...

A conceptual reflection will be carried out and a practical and methodological guide will be provided to the work undertaken with the aim of updating for 2005 a Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) constructed for 2001 as a database for a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model for the Azores. The...

It is through a United-Nations initiative and as part of the Millennium Development Goals that Senegal launched in 2000 the "Development Program for Education and Formation" (PDEF). Among others, this educational reform affected the sector of higher education. The purpose of this paper is to...

The objective of this paper is twofold. The first focus is on a productivity analysis, including an assessment of the impact on productivity of investments in capital, labour and other inputs (energy, material). To this end a growth accounting system is developed, although this is more than an...

It is evidences that the actual global crisis affected the convergence process in EU. Generally, just new adhered countries were more affected by the actual crisis. Today all forecasts are suffering by uncertainty. There are different opinions regarding how deep and how long the convergence...

Privatization and deregulation in the electricity sector led to competitive markets (pools and power exchanges) for wholesale trading and retail markets. Deregulation was aimed at improving efficiency and reliability, as well as achieving higher quality and overall lower costs. South America has...

Bank runs and banking crises have become global phenomena occurring repeatedly in both developed and developing countries during the last few decades. Bank runs and banking crises have increased since financial liberalization in the 1980?s and 1990?s (Davis and Karim, 2007). In Indonesia, bank...

The paper details construction of a regional social accounting matrix (RSAM) for Russia. The RSAM is constructed for the SUST-RUS regional computable general equilibrium model. The SUST-RUS model is aimed on assessment of sustainable development policies in Russia. In the process of the RSAM...

In the case of the French overseas departments (DOM), particularly of Guadeloupe, which are at the dawn of the experiment reaching reforms of economic policies, development of a simulation tool such as a macroeconomic CGE appears naturally as a highly desirable requirement. This recourse to the...