Search Results - "Economic crisis"

The article rises the question about cultural (values, mentality) impact on attitudes to innovation. Data on innovation activity in Russia is given in comparison with information about other countries and results of cross-cultural researches of interrelationships between cultural values (according...

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Antoni Sicras-Mainar,1 Ruth Navarro-Artieda2 1Research Unit, Badalona Serveis Assistencials SA, 2Medical Documentation Unit, Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain Objective: To describe antidepressant (AD) use in the treatment of major depressive disorder during a period of ec...

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This paper is based on the materials of the online forum, organized by John Renesh, futurist, member of “Shaping Tomorrow’s Foresight Network”. The authors use some materials of the discussion held in frameworks of this forum, and discuss questions connected with preconditions of today’s financial...

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The article considers the approach to the formation of the strategy of functioning in the information economy taking into account the crisis phenomena. Analytical framework for the study of business strategy and its effectiveness in difficult economic conditions is disclosed. The basic tools of deve...

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The paper covers the problem of the impact of the world financial crisis on the science sector and contains the analysis of current state and tendencies of S&T potential development in Russia. The authors mention the decreasing of S&T key indicators and business sector of science, although...

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This paper is an extensive analysis of bought international business press andacademic literature in the field about crisis management and related fields. The paperis grounded on the premise that the psychology of the crisis is an important componentof the present international context and psycholog...

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The article is devoted to the analysis of the influence of economic crisis on big, medium and small business in Russia. It shows the dynamics of small business development from 1996 to 2010. It shows current indicators of small business development in Russia as compared with leadingworld economies.

Objective: We aim to identify the most advanced SMEs in terms of their internationalisation shortly after the end of the economic crisis. For this purpose we look at the changes in the intensity of internationalisation in terms of its breadth and depth. Research, Design & Methods: The study is b...

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The global economic crisis, intensely debated, started almost six years ago, subjected the EU to new resistance tests because of the macroeconomic imbalances in the Euro Zone, generated by the increase of sovereign debts, especially in the PIIGS countries (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Spain). T...

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Book review of Karamessini, Maria, Rubery, Jill (eds.). 2013. Women and Austerity. The Economic Crisis and the Future for Gender Equality. Oxford: Routledge.

In this article the authors examine the forms and experiences of insecure and precarious work by Czech women caring for a child or a dependent family member. The results of a quantitative survey indicate that the share of caring women performing precarious work increased during the economic crisis....

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The article highlights some sources of inequalities in a globalized world which does not only generate positive impact. In the event it is mismanaged, globalization can give life to a mechanism facilitating tax evasion and, in the same time, ensuring for a small group of individuals, a power positio...

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The article introduces feminist political economy as an analytical tool or interpretative frame for exploring current economic crisis. In the beginning of the article, the authors focus on the wider context of feminist theories and approaches to capitalism within their development. The point is to s...

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Since 1991, Ukraine has had several economic crises (1991-1999, 2009, ongoing since 2014) and a period of economic boom from 2000 to 2008. The current crisis has external (the unfavorable situation in the world commodities markets) and internal (the military conflict with neighboring Russia) dim...

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The main focus of this study is Greek-Balkan economic cooperation during and after the economic crisis (2008), and so a comparative analysis of GDP, foreign trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) of the Balkan countries (BCs) is presented. Using relevant literature, GDP quantitative data, foreign...

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Which scenario will be evolved in the Russian economy over the next three years? Will the investment activity and the level of consumer credit be sustainable? Will the ruble be strengthened, or his position once again will be shattered? These and many other questions are of constant worrying by the...

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The research continues the series devoted to the study of knowledge-intensive services (KIS) in Russia. The last but not the least round of it conducted in 2009 was dedicated to the trends provoked by the global economic crisis. Sales and employment in KIS sector decreased moderately, but the strat...

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In this paper we explore the impact of the economic recession of 2008 on gender inequality in the labour force in Central and Eastern European countries. We argue that job and occupational segregation protected women’s employment more than men’s in the CEE region as well, but unlike in more develope...

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This paper analyses the effects of the global economic crisis in ten South Eastern European countries (Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia), within a European perspective. It also points out the main transmission channels of...

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Bank loans and deposits differ not only in quantitative characteristics but also in the content. Their dynamics is determined by contradictory internal structural trends. The work focuses on the loans and deposits of individuals and households in the banking system of the Republic of Bulgaria. The s...

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