Insight Into Relevant to the Eu Globalisation and Market Development Processes After the Second World War

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to analyse the topicalities and specifics of globalisation and market development processes since the Second World War until the end of the 20 th century, in the context of their impact on urgent problems related to development of economic thought. To achieve the aim, the following tasks were fulfilled: 1) to study historical events related to development of the market economy; 2) to analyse the changes, caused by historical processes, in economic theory under the conditions of globalisation; 3) to find solutions related to research problems in the area of economic thought. The following methods were used in the study: monograph, historical study, synthesis and analysis, logical-constructive method, analysis of historical facts and statistical data. In the study of historical events, mainly on the basis of the monograph and historical study methods, the attention was, generally, paid to different changes the world had experienced since the Second World War: such as the development of globalisation processes, having taken their beginning already during the Second World War; the more and more rapid rotations, taken up by globalisation processes; the sharp getting up of market regulation; the more and more visible role played by anew established cross border political, financial, military and economic organisations. In the analysis of the changes in the economic theory the attention was, on the basis of synthesis and analysis, logicalconstructive method and others, paid mainly to the domination of the cyclic economic development, being recognised, in the economic theory, as a self-evident norm also under conditions of the globalisation; to the beginning of domination of political relations over economic regularities in the society; to the tendency of endeavour to explain the economic relations with mathematical-statistical methods (

Efficiency of the European Social Fund Contribution to the Regions of Latvia

“…However, Keišs and a group of authors (Keišs et al, 2008) question the view that the largest emphasis in the EU funds distribution is placed on the fact that Riga, its surroundings and the large development centres will ensure high growth rates of the gross domestic product (GDP) also in the future, which will enhance the consistent increase of the welfare level of the population of entire Latvia up to the level of average prosperous inhabitants of the EU member states. The group of researchers continue to test this hypothesis also in 2008 performing monitoring observations and carrying out research about the unused opportunities in the regional development of the country.…”