Nowadays, image is radically important for any product, and even more so for a country. The image that a country displays to the world influences the attitude and perception of the other countries and people in general about itself. Romania is currently facing a brick wall in this area. Although...

The present contribution is a review article of the book of Alberto Quadrio Curzio and Valeria Miceli "Sovereign Wealth Funds. A complete guide to state-owned investment funds" Harriman House, Petersfield (UK), 2010. This article aims at analyzing the content of the volume in which the authors...

International Scientific Conference „SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN TERMS OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA STRATEGIC GOALS REALIZATION WITHIN THE DANUBE REGION - rural development and (un)limited resources“, which was held in period 5-6th June 2014 in Belgrade, the Republic of...

To overcome the socio-economic reality that harm society, the church needs to have a sensitivity and a strong commitment to encourage cooperation between the elements of the government, market forces, community institutions to empower people, especially poor and marginalized communities. The...

In recent days, controlling school dropout has emerged to be the prime hindrance to spread literacy and formation of human resource thereby. The present paper is an attempt to identify proximate determinants of school dropout and suggest probable solutions to the problem. Status of enrollment &...

This paper attempts to provide a summary of findings of the fast-growing theoretical and empirical literature on audit committee mainly basing on several available articles. Particular emphasis was given on the issues like the conflicts arising from the relationship between managers and...

In this paper, we use a wavelet filtering based approach to study the econometric relationship between exports, imports, and economic growth for Tunisia, using quarterly data for the period 1961:1-2007:4. GDP is used as a proxy for economic growth. We explore the interactions between these...

Il tema della qualità ha riscosso negli ultimi anni un'attenzione sempre crescente da parte delle aziende, ponendosi come fronte di intervento delle politiche aziendali necessario per sostenere gli attuali livelli della competizione. In realtà, l'interesse verso la qualità è sempre stato...

This is the third policy brief from Young Lives about Juntos, the conditional cash transfer programme in Peru which aims, in the short term, to reduce poverty by making a payment of 100 nuevos soles per month to each participating household if they comply with certain conditions intended to...

This paper provides additional insights on the relationship between government size and trade openness using a panel of countries drawn from the World Development Indicators and the Penn World Tables 7.0 from 1962 to 2009. It is shown that the compensation hypothesis proposed by Rodrik (1998)...