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Thousands had demanded Victor Ponta’s ouster, saying culture of corruption had role in death of 32 people in nightclub blaze.
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Russian police say members of far-right Ukrainian group caught with cache of smuggled weapons.
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Georgian premier accuses former president of calling for ‘anti-state and violent actions.’
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Banknotes to shed four zeroes in leader Lukashenka’s latest bid to slow inflation.
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Slovak government initially opposed the project, which creates a gas corridor between Germany and Russia
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This paper addresses the issues related to higher education in selected EU Member States and its contribution to the creation of wealth. Special emphasis was placed on the shape of education policy in selected countries through an analysis of the main indicators characterizing the same. The paper raises a number of questions which are important from the point of view of social policy: these questions relate to the policy of higher education funding and attempts to isolate and identify the relationships between higher education funding and the situation of people with higher education on the labour market. In the first part of this paper, the author presents the phenomenon of welfare by taking into account its measurement, especially those measures that relate to education related elements. Then the author indicates the relationship between education, especially its availability, and the process of wealth creation in the economy. In the empirical part of the paper an analysis is carried out on the basis of available and comparable indicators for selected EU Member States and conclusions are drawn based on the indicators.
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Government announces major pension reform; former security officers might face the first cuts.
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Tohtar Tuleshov also allegedly funded a shadowy, multinational crime syndicate whose existence is in doubt.
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Employers say non-EU workers needed to offset a growing labor shortage.
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The study discusses the implementation of relationship marketing in the retail chains in Bulgaria. At the beginning of the study the transition from transactional marketing to relationship marketing is represented as well as the indicators for analysis of the retailers’ marketing activities on the Bulgarian market: use of customer retention strategies and which types of strategies are implemented, use of CRM system and customer database, participation in partners network and establishment of long term relationships with suppliers. The main part of the study contains a comparative description between the relationship marketing practices of two chains: Piccadilly and Kaufland and conclusions about the strong and weak sides of their marketing practices.
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Pakt na rzecz ekonomii społecznej jest propozycją umowy z rządem, którą chcieliby zawrzeć przedstawiciele środowiska polskiej ekonomii społecznej. Wśród części z nich, w tym autora, panuje silne przekonanie, że konieczna jest zmiana nastawienia administracji do problemów związanych z działalnością społeczną i stosowania instrumentów gospodarczych do rozwiązywania problemów społecznych. Dotychczasowe interwencje publiczne nie wykorzystały szansy, jaką dawały spore środki z funduszy europejskich. Kontynuacja dotychczasowej polityki publicznej w tym obszarze nie wróży nic dobrego. Dlatego pakt jest testem – zarówno dla samego środowiska ekonomii społecznej, jak i administracji. W tekście opisano nadzieje, z jakimi wiąże się praca nad zapisami paktu, pokazano rozwiązania, które mogą spowodować, że pakt przyczyni się do rzeczywistej zmiany. Czy to się uda nie zależy jedynie od tego, czy pakt zostanie zawarty. Jednak jego podpisanie mogłoby się znacząco do tej zmiany przyczynić.
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We are studying the economic phenomenon of the unemployment in Maramures County of Romania. To obtain plausible conclusions regarding this study we apply different types of regression: the linear regression, polynomial regression, spline and Bspline regression. In this paper we focus on the numerical side of the research and we compare the predicted values, the graphic representation of the evolution, the future predictions and the errors generated by the regressions mentioned above. The calculations are performed in R, a programming language for statistical computing. An implementation in R is given.
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Public administration efficiency is essential for any country in the world. Economic literature offers a variety of methods and criteria for assessing the quality of governance. The article deals with regional policy tools as a way to improve the efficiency of public administration in general. In regional policy, there can be distinguished administrative, legal, economic, social and psychological methods and integrated management method as well. In this work, the author focuses on the analysis of the main economic and legal methods of state regional management of the economy. As an example, the author chose the Latgale region of the Republic of Latvia as the most backward region and identified the main ways of its development. The author used the methods of Sociological research, statistical analysis and method of expert evaluations. In the concluding part, the author showed that the housing energy efficiency programs are an effective tool for the development of backward regions and can serve as a basis for alignment of the socio-economic potential of various regions.
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Strict new regulations don’t amount to a ban but leave the company no choice but to suspend its service in the Hungarian capital.
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The paper refers to the situation in Polish gas market. The first part of the study concerns to the importance of gas as a energy source in Polish economy. The analysis of natural gas resources and its extraction was conducted in the article. Second part of the paper focuses on the structure of Polish gas supplies and its consumption in the domestic market. Results of surveys shows that demand for this fuel increases in energy, trade and services sectors in Poland. The article characterizes the market of LNG and CNG as a part of the gas market with specific requirements for transport and storage.
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Details are still emerging over the incident, though it occurred almost a month ago.
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In scientific material makes a comment on the problems of the international debt market in modern conditions, the role and place of government debt in the macroeconomic system, debt restructuring, public-public debt in the global financial „donors”, the methodology of World Bank indicators of debt conversion of debt, „Round tripping”, securitization, withdrawals and buying of debt, debt Laffer curve. Identify scenarios for restructuring the debt of the Russian Federation.
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Foreign direct investments (FDI) into Africa from developing economieshave grown substantially over the past decade. While the focus of the enquiryamong the geographers has been the rise of Chinese investments in Africa,India has become an important ‘Asian driver’ within the ‘new scramble for Africa’. This article highlights the geography of Indian involvement in Africa in termsof its growing scale, new patterns and the emerging complex structure of Indianinvestments. The article finds that the nature of India-Africa trade relationshipmirrors colonial trade relationships between India and the Great Britain. The Indianinvestments in Africa are resource- oriented and fused with geopolitical dynamics,driven by capitalistic agendas.
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In ensuring growth and development collaborative State-Business relations(SBRs) matters, and with economic growth comes increasing levels of employment,options for poverty reduction and hence more equitable development.Whereas it is known that SBR matters at a macro-economic level, the concept ofSBR has also been employed in a more or less all-encompassing way in the literature.Accordingly, while it is clear that SBRs work, there is lack knowledge aboutwhich dimensions of SBRs are the most important. Due to the continued importanceof agriculture in many developing countries, processing of the food producedin the sector is a key manufacturing activity of high economic importanceto many economies. Ensuring collaborative SBRs in the food processing industryis therefore of interest to growth and development, particularly as it is a sectorabout which little is known about the role of SBRs. The paper attempts toexamine how and why SBRs matter to and influence the growth and performanceof local owned firms in the food processing sub-sector in Zambia. In particular,the paper analyses the roles and influence of government regulations andpolicies compared to those of business associations for the performance of thefood processing sector in Zambia. The paper draws on primary data from a surveyof firms in the food processing sector which was conducted between 2013and 2014. It is shown that while the majority of the Zambian food processingfirms experienced growth over the last five years, with increased employment andin a number of cases growing earnings, this seems to have happened in spite ofa business environment which is not particularly supportive. The firms’ experienceis that the SBRs mainly constitute institutional barriers to the performanceof firms and highlight that formal government institutions and polices are incapableof assisting the firms and in most cases government institutions formulateand enact insufficient support schemes.
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Second homes have seen increased research interest over the last decade. On the whole, these investigations have mainly been understood in the spatial context of the developed North. Second homes have only recently been seen as a role player in the changing economic spatialities of small town geographies in South Africa. This growing scholarship on second homes has, however, been less concerned with the social impacts of the phenomenon. The investigation is set against the argument that second homes have social impacts on the immediate and surrounding areas in which they are situated. This investigation also demonstrates that second homes are phenomena with which not only the elite engage but a range of different socio-economic cohorts, including the poor. The social impacts of second homes in this investigation are shown to vary along race and class lines. Against the backdrop that second homes are relevant to very large parts of South African society, the social impacts associated with second homes need to be taken into account in future development planning in South Africa.
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