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Times of crisis provide the opportunity to question the behaviour of socioeconomic agents and specific phenomena around economic growth’s resilience. Hence, this paper relies on econometrics to analyse the data compiled from secondary sources mainly available within the World Development Indicators to comparatively examine foreign investors’ behavioural shifts in Eastern Europe and Africa during significant crises that the world faced during the last two decades. The aim is to identify, through their impacts, the above behavioural shifts and thereby assist policymakers in advancing policies strengthening and nurturing foreign direct investments’ “FDI” resilience and maintenance during and post-crises. It was uncovered that foreign investors appear to reduce their exposure during crises in Eastern Europe and Africa. The decrease in inflows seems to be higher in Eastern Europe than in Africa. However, the change in net FDI effects on infrastructure, trade openness, and economic growth is more significant in African economies. It is therefore believed that, to nurture FDIresilience or maintenance post-crisis, lawmakers should infer policies supporting the reduction of FDI outflows, the development of infrastructure, the improvement of trade openness, and ultimately advancing a sustainable FDI agenda. Through an empirical analysis of the effects that crisis periods have on FDI in Eastern Europe and Africa, the paper gives suggestions regarding policies that encourage fostering FDI resilience and maintenance in these regions. However, while future research may build on the above, there is a need to particularly investigate how sustainable instruments may support FDI resilience during crises.

Retrospection and transformation of the phenomena of criticism and crisis in social theory in recent decades have led to the weakening and even “illegitimate” renunciation of the said doublet. The paper presents an analysis of the renewal of discourse on criticism/crisis and its effects with special consideration of the possibilities of structural criticism. We included several authors of recent analyses as well as the viewpoints that have led to reconsideration of historical and analytical dynamics of two categories, structure and conjuncture, as a form of analysis of current structural processes in terms of structural analysis and criticism. The paper comprises three parts. The first part is a reflection on the reason criticism and crisis have been subjected to different processes of derogation despite their original connection. In the second part, we show the effects of different ways that crisis has manifested itself in capitalism and explain its dispersive and “non-punctual” modalities. The third part raises the question of chances of reuniting the crisis and “immanent criticism” based on structural criticism, and we further articulate its connections with immanent criticism. Structural criticism is viewed as a connection between immanent criticism and transcendent orientation that is focused on the reconnection between crisis and criticism, the elements related to capitalism.

In this paper the subject of study is the characteristics of textile industry businesses in crisis conditions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The paper is based on the fact that economic entities in their operations often encounter disturbances caused by the action of a large number of factors that lead to a crisis in their operations and which imply the implementation of appropriate activities in order to overcome these disturbances. The textile industry is an economic branch that is sensitive to crisis disturbances and was particularly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The paper is structured so that it consists of three parts. In the first part of the paper, it studies the impact of the crisis on the operations of textile companies, with a special focus on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as on the necessity of applying the concepts of circularity and sustainability. In the second part of the paper, the impact of the pandemic on the EU textile industry is analyzed, both from the point of view of the characteristics of that impact, and from the point of view of the measures and future strategic directions of the development of this sector. In the final part of the paper, the study focuses on the business characteristics of the domestic textile sector, while analyzing its indicators in crisis conditions and in the period from the onset of the pandemic until today. It is concluded that the application of the concept of a circular and sustainable economy represents the only long-term solution for the exit of this sector from the crisis, as well as a condition for its further development.

This paper analyses the business operation of trade companies in the Republic of Serbia during the Covid-19 pandemic and the impact of the crisis caused by this virus on the work of these companies. Namely, this crisis has caused serious problems in a short period in most sectors and altered the way they do business. It can be said that to a certain extent it caused damage to trade companies, with the effect of the pandemic differing by trade segments. For example, trade companies selling food products even achieved positive results in 2020, when compared to 2019. Accordingly, this paper aims to perceive the manner of business operation and achieved economic results of trade companies that operate in the territory of the Republic of Serbia during the period of existence of the Covid-19 virus.

This paper briefly outlines the problem of the crisis of true dialogue and communication in the era of globalization, which is conditioned by lightning-fast technical-technological progress, and thus the dromological experience of reality. In the shortest terms, it indicates the neuralgic points and causes of the crisis itself and indicates its possible development in the near future. The interpretation of the term of communication by Karl Jaspers was taken as the theoretical basis of the work.

The appearance of the pandemic in the form of the new disease COVID-19 greatly influenced global trends and caused a wider economic recession. Due to unusual factors that generated the crisis, it is specific and different from all previous ones. As the crisis continues, estimates of future economic trends vary depending on the health situation in individual countries, as well as the measures applied by state authorities to mitigate it. Due to the topicality of the crisis and its extraordinary impact on global trends, this paper attempts to examine the effects of the pandemic on the economy of the European Union, as well as to answer the question of the scope of economic policy measures in overcoming recessionary effects.