Countries in the European Union's neighborhood, such as those in the Eastern Partnership (EaP), have a particular interest in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) because investment inflows can guarantee them a number of advantages needed for accession. This paper proposes a comparative...

Africa is becoming more and more attractive for trade and investment, while entrepreneurs are concerned about the quality of the business environment. This paper aims to analyze the Africa's business environment and its dimensions in order to identify the most favorable destinations for starting...

Africa is becoming more and more attractive for trade and investment, while entrepreneurs are concerned about the quality of the business environment. This paper aims to analyze the Africa's business environment and its dimensions in order to identify the most favorable destinations for starting...

This research is a reflection on the new challenges in former European communist countries in three areas of gender equality. The analysis employs the gender disparity index (GDI), which encompasses life expectancy, education, and income indices, each equally weighted by gender. The former...

The main purpose of this paper is to discuss the problem of auditing the environmental pressures and impacts and to clarify the advantages of this process. We discuss about the connections between the audit financial and technical aspects and the main standards. ISO 14001 defines environmental...

The main objective of our article is to analyze the financial stability of Romanian country, to highlight whether the envisaged period of our analysis (2009-2012) is or not a period of financial stability. The analysis reveals both, elements with good evolution, and vulnerabilities of the...

In this paper we are trying to identify the main environmental management systems characteristics and to describe the first, and by many considered most important stage of EMS implementation – the environmental initial investigation. The initial investigation is considered of such importance...

The public policy tool of taxation may generate discouraging effects upon the economic agents – consumers or producers – but also could be used as incentives. High environmental taxation could generate crowding effect in terms of responsibility. Sometimes a very sophisticated system of...

Our paper’s aim is to review the main fiscal and budgetary measures taken by the Romanian government in the pre EU era and its effects. Many of them were imposed by the European aquis, but other was just proper for the economic national and international context.