In 2011 the world economy has registered an involution compared to 2010, due to diminished economic growth in countries with advanced economies. Also, a significant decrease in growth of international trade contributed to the evolution below expectations of the international economy as a whole....

In 2009, the world economy crossed the strongest postwar economic crisis, affecting all the economic and social areas. The process of recovery after the global recession started at the end of 2009, but the level of investment and production will be slow in 2010. In 2009, the international trade...

English Abstract: According to the chief economist of OECD appraisals, Catherine L. Mann, exposed in the traditional Economic Report no. 99, the OECD area as a whole economic growth was up slightly in 2015, after slowing the pace in 2012-2014 amid to deflation establishment in most member...

Romanian economy has been strongly affected by the waves of the worst global financial and economic crisis of the past decades. The “sudden stop” of the foreign capital flows during 2008 determined a severe and prolonged macroeconomic adjustment process. This paper estimates the consequences...

Five years after the start of the worst financial and economic crisis since the end of the World War II the euro area countries are confronted with the persistence of the public debt crisis. The recent literature on macro-financial topics identifies the main factors that determined the launch of...

The Balkans region (also known as the „Powder keg of Europe”) has always been an European question, a Western question, as underlined by Arnold Toynbee, in 1922. At present, European Union is confronted with the fifth enlargement, also known as the “post-conflict” enlargement – the...