The foreign direct investments in Romania – contradictories trends

Romania attracted large inflows of foreign direct investments (FDI), thanks to an improved business environment and still-low labor costs. Romania offers to the foreign investors many major reasons to invest in Romania: great market potential, strategic location, significant natural resources, high skilled labor force, high potential for economic growth, new EU member, infrastructure growing steadily, friendly business environment, access to European funds, competitive taxation. But still there are possible many contradictories evolutions generated both by Romanian government decisions and by the influence of the external factors. Virtually, the size on the above potential shows the countries with low FDI potential but strong FDI performance. The same time, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) matrix considers that Romanian economy has less advantages than the Romanian Agency for Foreign Investment (ARIS) offers. Therefore, Romania is below potential wanted by foreign investors. Therefore many challenges must be addressed to enhance competitiveness and to attract additional FDI. The Foreign Investors Council (the FIC) from Romania believes that Romania must still improve the enforcement of new laws and regulations; tackle major social reforms, including reform of the labor market; increase its competitiveness and improve its infrastructure.foreign direct investments, trends, contradictions, South-East Europe, Romania.

Financial instability threatens the investments for environmental protection in Romania

The environmental sustainability depends on the correct identifying of the investment needs as well as on the creation of financing possibilities of these investment projects. The integrated Europe underlines the fact that the environmental investment projects should be subscribed to the cohesion policy with a lot of objectives established by the Lisbon Strategy, on March 2000. First of all, in Romania, the main idea is that the environmental sustainability must be integrated into core development work, maximizing the synergies. Secondly, the environmental investments need the financing funds and the good ability to access these funds. Thirdly, the financial instability threatens the investment for the important environment projects but in these conditions, should be done more minor projects, promoted by the small business sector.instability, investments, environmental protection, cohesion policy

The real estate investments and the financial crisis in Romania

This paper is based on a wide range of researches and statistics data, regarding the enormous stock real estate boom that started around 1982 and picked up incredible speed after 1995. First of all, many economists argue that this boom represents a speculative bubble, because it is not grounded in sensible economic fundamentals. Secondly, this boom must be placed it in the context of financial crisis starting in 2007. In fact, the global financial crisis has begun with the north-American subprime mortgage debacle in 2007. Thirdly, should monitor the dangerous situation that occurs after a significant increase in real estate markets, and at one time the market drops significantly or long stays. The problems of the real estate sector are placed in the financial crisis and these are explained by following chain - first, the substantial increase in the rate of personal bankruptcies, which could lead to a secondary string of bankruptcies of financial institutions as well. The main long-run consequence could be a decline in consumer and local business confidence, and another, possibly worldwide, recession. In Romania, all these evolutions are very important for the policy options and actions that should be taken.real estate investments, financial crisis, subprime mortgage

International investments prospects for the period 2007-2009. Possible effects on the Romanian economy

This paper is focused on the main underlinings from the prospects survey of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) for the period 2007-2009 . These findings refer to the global trends in foreign direct investments (FDI) and determinants of future FDI flows; the prospective trends by host regions and countries; the FDI patterns by activities, home countries, modes of entry and the respective roles of globalization and regional integration. Particularly, this research has analyzed how the Romanian developing and transition economy should be affected by the inflows of world investments. UNCTAD has a controversy attitude about the FDI related prospects into South-East Europe and the CIS and it offers a mixed prospect for the period 2007-2009.globalization, foreign direct investment, emerging countries, regional integration