Private banking is related to the individual wealth growth, although the financial crisis has slowed down the growth of GDP in many countries, we cannot ignore the fact that private banking has realized a significant income in the period of financial crises. The globalization process, mergers...

For several centuries, international relations have been structured by mercantilist practices. These aim at generating an external trade surplus to accelerate the pace of domestic accumulation. The countries that are subjected to these practices have a foreign trade deficit, which tends to...

During the 1980’s, Portugal experienced a decrease in income inequality but this decrease was not uniform across the income distribution and, in recent years, income inequality seems to be following the opposite path. From around the year 2000, the Portuguese economy has become almost...

The aim of this chapter is to provide a basis for a possible course in the analysis of the unemployment rates and poverty, as well as to point to the ways to solve these long-term problems by applying different strategic measures. The main intention of the author is to explain and show a...