Livia Baciu

Alexandru Ioan Cuza University | UAIC · Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

The ideological debate on public government involvement in environmental issue is ever-topical as resource exploitation affects the quality of the natural environment. Considering the two issues involved in the analysis of externalities, social welfare and property rights, we intend in this paper to develop on the problems related to the implicatio...

The use of many multimedia channels in order to bring information to target groups is not something new. What is new is related to how these channels are exploited by mixing techniques and technologies. We realized an online questionnaire to identify the multimedia techniques/ tools that have impact on user’s satisfaction. We used comparative stati...

This paper provides an analysis of the performance and efficiency of the public sector in the European Union (EU). Using composite indicators and data envelopment analysis, we focus on the new EU member countries, which were involved over the past decade in the accession and integration process. Results of the analysis indicate that, unlike "old" E...

The polarization phenomenon observed in recent decades in the EU countries has become one of the issues discussed extensively in economic theory and regional policy. The development gaps deepened after the last two waves of enlargement to Eastern Europe, this fact generating serious challenges concerning the convergence process. The recovery of dis...

With the transition from the information society to the knowledge society, knowledge has increasingly become a success factor for business development. In the current very competitive business environment, employees are required have high performances, although they can no longer rely on traditional training sessions to acquire the skills they need...

The analysis of the institutional features of Romanian education is necessary within the context of the general institutional transformations undergone by the country. Using the methodology suggested by Gonard, Joumard and Price (2007), this paper aims at analysing the Romanian compulsory education from the perspective of institutional efficiency a...

In this paper the authors started from the widely accepted idea that the cultural inheritance of modern society becomes the key to its own development. Within the context of economic and institutional change, after institutional reforms continuing for twenty years, Romania still has the lowest economic performances compared to other countries in Ea...

Educational objectives, like educational quality, are contextual and evolving—they may exhibit both continuity and change. This paper capitalizes on the role of neo-institutionalism and on the contribution of Douglass North (one major representative of the neo-institutionalism trend) in identifying the institutional impact upon cognitive developmen...

This paper aims at analyzing the economic factors that influence the graduation rate of pre-academic education in Romania, the analysis being conducted at regional level The first part of the study highlighted the economic and social disparities at the level of Romania's regions, taking into account the most important macroeconomic indicators regis...

This paper focuses on the correlation between education and sustainable development unveiling the human dimension of development process. In authors’ opinion, success in revising unsustainable trends will, to a large extent, depend on the flexibility in understanding the type of education needed for sustainable human development. For the national l...

Any university which aims at surviving and at being on top or at having a minimum contribution to the progress of knowledge must evaluate itself according to a set of clear evaluation criteria regarding both didactical and scientific activity. The decisive criterion in promotion is represented by the results of the research activities (the number o...

When adopting the recommendations of the Lisbon Agenda or Strategy, the European states have decided that in order to make the European Union a space of competitiveness and greater social cohesion and a model of sustainable economic growth, research-development and innovation (RDI) must become the main pillar of the member states common policies. C...

Starting from the results of a national survey, a questionnaire on the values of Romanians was applied in April 2008 which was used for a comparative analysis of historical regions of Romania: Moldova, Bucharest, Dobrogea, Transilvania and Muntenia.

The paper aims at investigating the two main characteristics of a modern system of compulsory education with a focus on Romania. It assumes that the equity of the education sector and the efficiency of resource use are strongly correlated, both supporting

It is almost unanimously accepted that research and development, innovation and knowledge creation play a major role in regional competitiveness and, furthermore, they largely contribute to progress and economic growth. Although there is not a unique definition and perspective, the concept of learning region is strongly related to the one of region...

The aim of this paper is to provide a view of the emigration from Romania by country of destination, in the period 1991-2003, using statistical methods. The paper is focusing on the migration from the perspective of the accession of Romania to the EU. The influence of the European integration on the migration inflows is very important. Emigration h...