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Currently, the socio-economic environment seems to be starting to go through a difficult situation, similar to global financial crisis that began since late 2007. In this respect, we emphasize what A. Einstein pointed out: „It is in crisis that invention, discovery and large strategies are born”. Not only the effects of the latest crisis are still felt, but, moreover, the imminence of a new global crisis that seems to spread its tentacles towards Europe is debated upon. This puts into question aspects related to t...

The pursuit of security is one of the basic human needs, which at the level of a state-organized society is transformed into the category of national security in the conditions of various social and natural man-made threats. Understanding of national security and the implementation of individual measures to maintain it are based in national interests, which are the national striving for sustainable development, improvement of welfare, improvement of technology, science and culture, strengthening the role in the in...

The task of law is not confined to the protection of private and individual rights, but it aims at protecting the public interest, which concerns the interest of the whole country. As a result, the question of who defends the public interest arises. Needless to say, that the state with all its bodies should do this task but, legally speaking, it cannot, as there should be a certain body whose task is to advocate such interest in case they are violated. It should, also, has the right to bring the case to the court ...

Economic security is largely determined by the quality of the integrated reporting's assessment. The article is devoted to the research of the adaptation of authorial analyzing methods the impact of capitals state changes and stakeholders' economic behavior on the change in the company’s created value to ensure the economic security. The study is based on the value maximization concept of the firm, which is created when interacting with stakeholders by accumulating and transforming their resources. The paper propo...

Analysis of the problems of the federal structure and new trends in its development are particular importance for Russia. Since the collapse of the USSR, the country has passed a difficult and long way of becoming from Soviet federalism to the modern democratic Federation. This transformation took place against the backdrop of complex and controversial political and socio-economic relations, as well as various crises that encompassed all aspects of social life. The basic principles, fundamental ideas characterizin...

Commuter rail transport in Russia has been assigned the lead socio-economic role in meeting the mobility needs of local population. The social significance of rail transport lies in its demand among those citizens who have the right for preferential travel, as well as among people with low incomes. Regional authorities set up the cost of travel for such society groups below actual cost. Losses in the income of the carrier are compensated by providing subsidies from the budgets. The mechanism for delivering budget-...

The problem of ageing population is increasing. So, the governments in different countries are trying to find some solution of the deficit of the pension systems and so different types of reforms suggest itself. These reforms can be only parametric or can be also systematic. The parametric reform is represented mainly by the increase of the pension age and by the increase of the minimum insurance period. But it needn?t be satisfactory and for that reason a lot of governments in the middle and east Europa were tryi...

Developing and building of road infrastructure is one of the state priorities. At present, a need is not build only new roads, but also improve existing road network. Many of roads do not meet the requirements for traffic flow and safety. The roads with these conditions require reconstruction. The one of the roads with bad conditions is road section I/18, which is located between villages Lipniky and Hanusovce nad Toplou. The road section is not meet requires of traffic flow and road safety. The road section is lo...

which provides a link between the sphere of social relations, cultural norms and political processes. It is a set of principles that influence political behavior and help systemically structure common values, attitudes, beliefs, and orientations that form the basis of the relationship between an individual, society, and the state. The stability of a political culture is based on such factors as the legitimacy of the existing system and political regime. This article discusses the features of the political culture ...

This article is about the problems of the development of the indebtedness of the firms in different branches in the USA and in the Europe. The analysis of this development is important besides other things for the purpose of the identification of the average indebtedness and so-called branch standards that can be used for the process of optimizing of the capital structure. That is the topic inviting for the large discussion and very large researches which plays an important role in the sphere of the financial mana...

The relationship between economic growth and unemployment has been a topic of interest in academia for almost 60 years but with a special focus on developed countries and only recent papers present results at the regional level. This paper analyzes the regional Okun’s Law in two emerging countries, namely Bulgaria and Romania applying original data. To best achieve the research objective, we consider the widely valued specification of Okun’s Law, that investigates the relationship between the cyclical components o...

American social enterprise. In the background of this basic comparison, the analysis attempts to locate the Polish model of social enterprise This study is going concern difference in definitions of social enterprise and conception of national models these entities including polish model of social enterprise The aims is of this study is to show that economic and social results of the participants in the Anglo - Saxon models (Amer-ican and English) are the most effective however comparative studies of models show t...

Promoting and developing the energy sector is an essential component of the process of Romania's sustainability. Sustainability in the promotion of the energy sector can be achieved by: building new capacities, upgrading and modernizing the energetic sector, stimulating the increase of internal consumption in the context of energy efficiency, promoting and capitalizing on renewable energy sources, especially geothermal energy. In this context, Romania participates in European projects aimed at promoting and capita...

The present paper is concerned with reviewing different types of tools and methodologies that are already implemented for statistical analysis of performance and efficiency within the economic field. For this purpose, our attention considers both parametric and non-parametric methods and tries to identify the most appropriate ones. This research is oriented on different levels, namely on identifying the difference between parametric and non-parametric methods, their purpose and applications. Regarding the test per...

The aim of public authorities in managing public administration is to improve the quality of public administration subjects and public service activities to support socio-economic growth and increase the quality of citizens’ life. For this reason, public authorities must make efficient use of available funds. Effective management of public finances will ensure optimal functioning of all socially important public sector functions related to the peoples’ life and whole society, such as education, health care, social...

This research aims to identify the effects that different types of taxes have on happiness, considering that the main feature of the tax systems should be related to being fair, otherwise they fail to be sustainable. For this, the question arises on the fact that happier taxpayers would pay higher taxes or not. This study will reveal, through regression analysis, the effect taxes have on various indicators of happiness, over the period 2009-2016. In order to highlight whether or not the level of taxes is directly ...

Information theory is based on interdisciplinary defined mathematical, computer sciences and artificial intelligence. The information is based on theory of mathematically defined the basic preconditions for the fulfilment of the conditions of information processing, and perception quantified properties informative value. While the total applicable and informative value is often lost in a mathematical bite - mathematically measurable value information. The most effective instrument to eliminate the risk is to provi...

The aim of the present article is to assess the sustainability of five Estonian Ministries before and after moving the ministries to a joint building to find out if the moving was a reasonable decision. The objects of the study are the cost accounts of the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Social Affairs, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Education and Research, and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications of the Republic of Estonia in the timeframe between October 2016 and March 2018. Both qu...

The Aztecs are among the most prominent, most developed and even the most explored pre-Hispanic (prior to the Spanish 16th century colonization of the Americas existing) cultures of Mesoamerica, a culture-historical area comprising Central and Southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and certain parts of other Central American states except for Panama. In a broader sense, Aztecs can be identified with Nahuas, who dominated the relatively independent region of Mesoamerica called Central Mexico (the Mexican Valley and its...