The Effects of the Public Administration Involvement on Social Policy Implementation

The paper deals to the analysis of the public administration’s performance in social policy and health care implementation. In order to realise it, the analysis takes into consideration four specific indicators: the impact of the social transfers on poverty reduction, general government expenditure by function, aggregate replacement ratio for pensions, children aged less than 3 years in formal childcare, self-reported unmet need for medical care and out-of-pocket expenditure on healthcare. The analysis in the paper is structured on two levels: a comparative analysis between the Member States and a regression analysis in order to point out the disparities. A special part of the paper is dedicated to the social policy in Romania. The analysis is supported by the latest official statistical data and pertinent diagrams. Moreover, dedicated software was used in order to compute statistical data and to obtain pertinent results. The main conclusions of the paper are connected to the huge differences between the EU average goals in social and health care policies and the reality from each Member States. On the other hand, Romania faces to great challenges related to social policy and public administration support for improving the situation of its citizens

Europe 2020 Strategy vs Global Environment Protection’s Challenge

The paper deals with the analysis of the latest events related to the environment protection and clean energy. This analysis is built on two levels. The first one is the analysis of the Europe 2020 Strategy regarding the environment and energy across the EU and points out the great disparities between the Member States. The second level is focus on the environment and energy consumption in Romania. It is followed by forecasting procedures related to the greenhouse gas emissions, the renewable energy in gross final energy consumption, the primary energy consumption and the final energy consumption. The main conclusion of the paper is that EU has to face to great challenges in this domain and the Strategy’s goals achieving in 2020 is not sure. On the other hand, Romania has good performance for two from the four above specific indicators. The analysis is based on long term statistical data, pertinent diagrams and is supported by IBM-SPSS software

Assessing Goodwill in Hotel Business Case Study: Milcofil SA. Vrancea

This study focuses on the assessment of goodwill in the hotel business, an entity which brings together both tangible and intangible elements. Even though tangible elements are relatively easy to measure by typical accounting methods, the intangible part (which defines the most important feature of services) is rather difficult, if not impossible to measure. That is mainly the reason why the immaterial side, which defines famous businesses, brings the recognition of the image, advertisement, logo, emblem, fame or, in other words, all the elements that attract clients

Europe 2020 Strategy vs Global Environment Protection’s Challenge

The paper deals with the analysis of the latest events related to the environment protection and clean energy. This analysis is built on two levels. The first one is the analysis of the Europe 2020 Strategy regarding the environment and energy across the EU and points out the great disparities between the Member States. The second level is focus on the environment and energy consumption in Romania. It is followed by forecasting procedures related to the greenhouse gas emissions, the renewable energy in gross final energy consumption, the primary energy consumption and the final energy consumption. The main conclusion of the paper is that EU has to face to great challenges in this domain and the Strategy’s goals achieving in 2020 is not sure. On the other hand, Romania has good performance for two from the four above specific indicators. The analysis is based on long term statistical data, pertinent diagrams and is supported by IBM-SPSS software

The Financial Market of the Cross and Up-Selling Insurers from Romania

The biggest threat for the worldwide financial system is the recession at global level, which wouldhave a major impact on the insurance industry. The differences between the results of European companiesduring the crisis, had a close connection with the aggressive or defensive investment strategies. Although thebank assurance agreements exist and they are developing further, the partnerships of this type didn’t have theexpected success in Romania, so far. Once with the market penetration from Romania of some insurers ofEuropean size, more specialized companies have launched bank assurance partnerships with banks, especiallyin the view of distribution of life insurances, and more recently, of the promoting the package of currentaccount, products of savings – credit in the housing domain, pension funds, credits for small companies,mortgages and the one of personal needs. The success of this type of sale is still to come and put in doubt, atthis point, the efficiency of promoting the banking products by insurers

The Impact of Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media with and without Cholesteatoma in Patients from Northeastern Romania

Quality of life is a widely used concept that tends to become an important part of clinical management. The present study performs an analysis of the impact of suppurative chronic otitis media with and without cholesteatoma on quality of life, using the COMQ-12 questionnaire. It was applied to a group of 40 healthy people and to 40 patients before surgery, and the answers to the questions were analyzed and correlated with socioeconomic factors. After the confirmation of the diagnosis based on clinical and imaging information, the patients completed the COMQ-12 questionnaire. It was observed that the chronic ear problems had negative impacts of varying degrees on daily and long-term activities. The evaluation and analysis of information can be used in setting therapeutic targets