News: Small Business Administration (President Ford)

Duane D. Pearsall of Colorado named 1976 National Small Business Person of the Year. Pearsall was selected for the national honor from a field of 51 winners from all states and Puerto Rico. The award dinner culminated the National Small Business Week Salute to Small Business activities at the Hyatt Regency Hotel

CARACTERIZING THE PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEM REFORM USING THE STATISTICAL SURVEY APPROACH

Assuring the health of the general public is a major objective of each country’s public health system. To insure this goal the public health system needs to offer good quality and prompt services according to the population’s needs The paper presents the main results of a two step sampling procedure applied within the medical institutions from Bucharest in July 2007. Using a representative sample of 407 persons the paper presents the main descriptive statistics calculated on the most important variables that were taken into account in order to quantify the impact of the reform measures applied in the public health care system on the quality of the medical services provided to the general public.Statistical sampling, Descriptive Statistics, Public Health Care System, Reform

EXCELLENCY OR CHAOTIC GLOBALIZATION IN TOURISM?

The globalization, new destinations proliferation and new technologies have changed the competitive environment of the European countries. In the present, the most powerful tool in tourism's promotion is represented by the image of a country or region or touristic product. If we focus our attention on the international dimension, the strategies of defining an image or touristic promotion are: to create a new touristic image, re-position a traditional touristic destination, create a degree of awareness in a competitive environment, create brands (a brand for a region/state).tourism, globalisation, strategy

VEC MODEL OF DEVELOPING COUNTRY INFLATIONARY DYNAMICS a€“ AN EMPIRICAL STUDY a€“ THE CASE OF ROMANIA

One of the most difficult issues confronting that monetary authorities in many developing economies have to deal with is the management of a stable price environment. Inflation can create uncertainty, a low level of investment, and raise costs in generalinflation forecasting, monetary policy, developing countries, Romania, VAR model

ANALYSIS OF THE ROMANIAN PENSION SYSTEM FROM AN EUROPEAN

The political, economic, social, cultural and especially demographic aspects have put their inprints on the pension, so that it should keep in mind the way they were built and are building the European social policies in general, and EU policy on pensionssocial insurance, pension reform, social security system, private pension

BEING PROACTIVE VERSUS REACTIVE - THE SOLLUTION OF SELF-GOVERNMENT

Starting from selfknowing and the law of correspondence (the behaviour from the outside of one person is the reflection of its inside feelings) the authors try to define the meaning of proactivity. It is underlined that as we have the quality to be human beings we are responsible for our lives. The proactive persons do not blame the environment or the circumstances to justify their behaviour. As it was implanted in the literature of management, the meaning of proactivity is based on initiative, on responsibilities and actions; this gives priority to values in front of any feelings.proactiv, reactiv, responsability, rationalism, hope, fulfilment of life

YOUNGSTERS INSERTION ON THE LABOUR MARKET. A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS ROMANIA - EUROPEAN UNION

The insertion of young people into the labor market represents an important issue amongst all the countries within the European Union and this process is studied differently from one country to another. At present the European Union counts about 75 million young people with the age between 15 and 24 years old. This article main objective is to study insertion rate of young people the labour market as well as it deals with their problems.labor market, insertion rate, unemployment rate

THE WORLD OIL MARKET – STATISTICAL ANALYSIS

For some countries the oil is the main source of income, while for others it represents the main raw material for energetic needs. Thus, the oil price has major influence on their economies and it is important for them that it stabilizes at a level profitworld oil market, comparative analysis, OPEC, G8

ETHICAL AND COMPETITIVE PROBLEMS RELATING TO QUOTA MILK SYSTEM IN ROMANIA

Recent conflicts regarding the milk market indicat tensions between milk producers and milk processing companies, about milk price. This conflict involved many farmers and was focused in two directions. First – the farmers' discontent about the imported mquota milk system, competitive, ethics

CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT EVOLUTION, DENSITY AND SPECIALIZATION PERSPECTIVES OF SMES SECTOR IN THE WESTERN PART OF ROMANIA

Starting from the role of small-and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector that is widely recognized at European level in the generation of economic growth, regional development and work places, the present work of research aims to investigate the evolutioSMEs sector, SMEs density, specialization coefficient, regional development