This research is intended to evaluate the influence of the European integration, through the EU financing dimension, upon the evolution of external competitiveness of countries part of the EU community since the enlargements of 2004 and, respectively, 2007, excluding Malta and Cyprus (hereafter called as New Member States (NMS)). The paper methodology is based on appropriate research of relevant economic indicators intended to evaluate the EU funds' influence on the industrial development and external competitiveness of NMS. Therefore, in the analysis performed there were figured out and calculated correlations between the following indicators: EU expenditure by NMS, Current Account to GDP ratio, Industrial Performance index, Global Innovation Index and Index of Economic Freedom. These indicators characterize the NMS' business environment, institutional framework and, consequently, the degree of international competitiveness. The research contributes to confirm the assumptions about the European integration and the EU financing instruments had important effects in improving the industrial performance, in particular, and international competitiveness of NMS, in general. However, the differences in the correlations calculated between EU financing received by the NMS and different analysed indicators, suggest that EU funds were not the only drivers of the increasing competitiveness of the analyzed countries.
As a consequence of the increased number of Moldovan migrants, the volume of remittances inflows to Moldova raised steadily. Previous studies on labor migration and remittances in Republic of Moldova underline both the role of remittances in generating increased consumption of the population and its impact on the economic development of the country. In this paper, we aim to analyze the variation of money transfers of Moldovan migrants in order to estimate the trend of the remittances inflows and the seasonal variations under the impact of the global crisis. The data on remittances are available from the
The main landmarks of the architecture of the world economy at the present stage are examined. It was argued that the process of globalization, the content, directions and interdependent forms of international economic are determined by the relationship between the great world economic powers. But starting with the years 2014-2015 to defend serious cracks in the field of the world economy in general and in the process of globalization in particular. Are these problems an indication that the relations between the great powers can no longer generate the increase of the prosperity of the countries of the world? This article seeks to answer these questions by emphasizing that reconfiguring global economic power relations requires a new approach to the effective architecture of the international economic security system.
At the current stage of global confrontations between the great powers, the issue of ensuring national economic security has become pressing and absolutely necessary. Starting from strategic interests and the balance of powers at global and regional level, we will try to assess the main economic trends, which will define in perspective the configuration of the external environment, in which the Republic of Moldova will struggle to increase the welfare of its citizens in the coming years. This paper offers a new approach to ensuring the external economic security of a small state, the area of priority economic interests, emphasizing that even at the regional level, there is a reconfiguration of power, which cannot be ignored while examining the ways of economic growth of the Republic of Moldova over a long period of time.
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