The global economic crisis put attention away from high food prices. A billion people all around the world got hungry because of the recent big rise in food prices and decades of bad economic politics. Last financial crisis makes these people life much difficult. During 2007 and 2008 the world...

Considering the significant positive impact of foreign direct investments on the developing economies, we have tried in this paper to identify the main factors influencing one way or another the flows and stocks of FDI. Our sample includes four host countries with a similar past from Eastern...

Given that the current business world is based on the expansion of global markets, more companies participating in the international activity, business management has been faced with new challenges. This is because companies in order to cope with global competition were forced to adapt to the...

If most of the literature regarding foreign direct investments (FDI) investigates the trend of FDI, the motives and their effects on development, little has been analyzed regarding the composition of FDI and the influence it has on the evolution of FDI’s trend .The current paper tries to...

The contemporary society was given a new feature, called virtual aspect, that gets involved into the daily life of people at a speed close to that of the sun. The Internet and nowadays technologies have become an absolutely perfect integrated part, offering better circumstances for development...

This paper`s target is to point the role of political risk in international affairs. Despite the fact that now we live in a globalized world the reality shows that national borders still matters. In this context, multinational companies face a lot broader types of risk when they invest abroad....

The countries in transition need FDI not just to produce more goods and a higher quality. Foreign capital investments are the most efficient and safe way to integrate into the world economy. Further, we shall examine some structural changes, which had been made, under the influence of FDI, in...

TNCs have several advantages over local firms in using new technologies for export activity. They have large internal reserves of skill, technical support, experience and finance to design and implement the learning process. They have access to major export markets, established marketing...

Theoretical definitions are given within the article regarding food security and independence and also there are presented the agents that influence them. Moreover, a description of the security at global and national level is given, ilustrated by a series of specific indicators and trends of...