Romanian educational system - component of the national economy

National economy as a stand-alone entity, is a set of resources (natural, material, human, etc..), production activities, trade, service etc. that have established branches, sectors, etc. at a country’s level, between which are established reciprocal links which is based on the material and spiritual movement values, ensures the operation and economic development of society. Thus, the national economy’s system appears as a set of interconnected elements through economic, educational, informational, technological, cultural, etc. relations according to a predetermined goal, or serving the same goal.national economic system, education, cybernetic system, educational system, educational activity

Study Regarding the Increasing of Human Resource Quality in Academic Activity

The life of any organization is not only manifested through its activities, but also by subjective states that its members live and shape its human dimension. Involved in carrying out different activities, the TTD’s academic human resource interact and cooperate, their work is accompanied by all kinds of experiences: dissatisfaction-satisfaction, happiness-sadness, confidence-deterrence, etc. These states are the subjective dimension of work, influencing, at a high level, the overall condition and the smooth running of the organization, its performance.human resources, quality assurance, educational management

MODELING MANAGERIAL ACTIVITY, A CHALLENGE OR A NEED INTO THE INTERCONECTED ECONOMIC SPACE

In the European economic area, which becomes more and more interconnected, the management system provides ways of obtaining a performance which, on changing the size of the firm, sometimes prove to be inadequate. During that lapse of time from triggering the action when the results can be measured should be as small continuously decreasing. The information required to be used in the decision support are required more avid. The manager will use different models for measurements of indicators of discrete evaluation, but it proves that not to be the best solution. Only the availability of this information will enable them to make better decisions, and by changing the way of how the decision making needs to get a deep effect on those decisions which are currently in action.interconnected economy, managerial activity, sustainable development, management model, resource evaluation, risk management

Combinatorics of least squares trees

A recurring theme in the least squares approach to phylogenetics has been the discovery of elegant combinatorial formulas for the least squares estimates of edge lengths. These formulas have proved useful for the development of efficient algorithms, and have also been important for understanding connections among popular phylogeny algorithms. For example, the selection criterion of the neighbor-joining algorithm is now understood in terms of the combinatorial formulas of Pauplin for estimating tree length. We highlight a phylogenetically desirable property that weighted least squares methods should satisfy, and provide a complete characterization of methods that satisfy the property. The necessary and sufficient condition is a multiplicative four point condition that the the variance matrix needs to satisfy. The proof is based on the observation that the Lagrange multipliers in the proof of the Gauss--Markov theorem are tree-additive. Our results generalize and complete previous work on ordinary least squares, balanced minimum evolution and the taxon weighted variance model. They also provide a time optimal algorithm for computation

EVALUATION OF THE ORGANIZATIONAL CAPACITY ON PROJECT MANAGEMENT OF THE PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS

Utilization of the projects for achieving large processes, relatively unique, with high strategic importance, implies specific organizational competences, besides the individual competences. The process of pre-accession and post-accession of Romania to the European Union had, and still has, a major influence on the institutional framework and on the methodology in which programs and projects and, more extended, the implementation of public policies are implemented in Romania. Moreover, it is noticed the trend within the Romanian public administration thwarts a budgetary system based on programs. Public institutions should perform an evaluation when significant changes occur, in order to facilitate the necessary improvements for their management capacity. The quality of their processes and the performance of their activities should be measured, in order to allow the identification of common measures that should be undertaken for improving the management of their projects and programs. The paper presents an overview of the practices within public institutions from Romania that are implementing projects and programmers, with a view to clarify some aspects that are deriving from the incumbent of this practice. The analyses of current state in the Romanian public institutions that are implementing projects and programmers, reveals the need for using an evaluation tool for assessing the organizational capacity on managing projects.project, evaluation, organization capacity

The Impact of the Flat Tax Reform on Inequality: The Case of Romania

In this paper we focused on the flat tax impact on inequality in Romania. We compared 2005 against 2004, when we were able to isolate the flat tax impact from other factors. We found that the higher the gross wage, the higher the flat tax gains. The inequality indicators we calculated (the Gini index, the relative mean deviation, the coeficient of variation, the standard deviation of logarithms, the Mehran index and the Piesch index) show an increase in inequality determined by the flat tax. The Lorenz curve is illustrative, as only the last quantile of the population (richest 20%) appears as the clear winner of the flat tax. The results also indicate that the income elasticity of consumption is decreasing across quartiles, from 81 to 71 percent. We conclude that the flat tax led to increased income inequality and it stimulated households consumption particularly among the wealthiest households.flat tax, inequality, income distribution, consumption elasticity

The Determinants of Foreign Banking Activity in South East Europe: Do FDI, Bilateral Trade and EU Policies Matter?

This research paper attempts to find explanatory variables for foreign banks activity in SEE and CEE, mainly among three categories of factors: FDI, bilateral trade, and EU policies. We proxy bilateral banking activity by the consolidated foreign claims of reporting banks between source and recipient countries. Our sample includes 12 source countries (of which 10 are EU members) and 16 recipient countries (from SEE, CEE and former Soviet Union), and it covers the 1995-2004 period. We found that bilateral trade and the interest rate differential are significant and bear the expected sign, which means that foreign banks follow the customer and exploit profit opportunities. Foreign direct investment (FDI) was found to be weakly significant and only with a two-year lag, which means that banking activity is generated by non-financial FDI only after that FDI matures. Banking sector reform, a proxy for EU policies imposed to Eastern European countries, also appears significant. Lack of corruption is important, while distance does not matter. This paper also finds that an increase in foreign banks’ activity in a recipient country is correlated with an increase in the Human Development Index.

The Impact of the Flat Tax Reform on Inequality - the case of Romania

In this paper we focused on the flat tax impact on inequality in Romania. We compared 2005 against 2004, when we were able to isolate the flat tax impact from other factors. We found that the higher the gross wage is, the higher the flat tax gains are. The inequality indicators we calculated (the Gini index, the relative mean deviation, the coeficient of variation, the standard deviation of logarithms, the Mehran index and the Piesch index) show an increase in inequality determined by the flat tax. The Lorenz curve is illustrative, as only the last quantile of the population (richest 20%) appears as the clear winner of the flat tax. The results also indicate that the higher the income level, the higher the income elasticity of consumption. We conclude that the flat tax led to increased income inequality and it stimulated households consumption particularly among the wealthiest households.flat tax, inequality, income distribution, consumption elasticity