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Climate change and economic development have both an increasing impact on human health and on the quality of life. The reverse assumption is also true, since, for improving economic and social development and well-being, the human activity is affecting the environment. This paper presents some of the alarm signals of various international institutions and entities regarding several challenges the current modern society is facing: climate change, disruptive weather events, food safety implications, health related issues, economic losses. Based on previous studies which demonstrated a direct connection between climate changes and weather conditions and the outbreak of infectious diseases and threats for the food safety chain, the main research objective is to determine whether this hypothesis is also valid in the case of Romania. Thus, the conducted analysis takes into consideration variations of temperature and precipitation in relation to new cases of food-borne diseases in order to determine if this connection is statistically significant as it was in other regions of Europe and of the world previously examined by scholars.

Agricultural activities are affected by the decisions that farmers make every day. The factors that are decisive in making decisions cannot be foreseen with great accuracy. The purpose of this study is to explore the psychosocial and contextual factors that are related to agricultural entrepreneurs. Respondents were given the opportunity to be as honest as possible about what they believe is preventing them from achieving high performance in managing their agricultural activities. The risk and stress factors and, respectively, the methods of measuring their impact were taken into consideration, choosing various characteristics such as the typology of the factors, the duration of the manifestation, the intensity of the felt effect, the frequency of the contact of the people with the factors. The study found that there is concern and attractiveness for this economic sector, but entrepreneurs are faced with various phenomena that most often tend to decrease their performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Small and medium-sized enterprises in Romania have had serious difficulties in entering the international markets in terms of both the development of internal export organization capacity (exportable quantities, quality, managerial abilities, communication and branding) and the constraints and exigencies of external markets related to standards and certifications, market access conditions and regulations. Numerous studies indicate that Romanian firms face such constraints. There is a complex of barriers inside the firms, but also from the external environment that affects the interest towards export. Despite national export support programs through participation in trade fairs or economic missions or through the access to foreign trade knowledge by the foreign trade portal or the Europe Enterprise Network, many companies interested in export go to foreign markets totally unprepared to cope with the competition. So, there are several negative effects on the effectiveness of support programs. Some studies indicate that Romanian managers do not have the necessary knowledge to elaborate the export strategies on their own or do not have an outside expertise, although they appreciate the importance of developing this kind of strategies. To enter the foreign markets, Romanian managers need an integrated export service system that is accessible after developing a strategy on the market so that the road to it is smooth even from the participation in the international promotion events. Since 2017, the first export business center operates in Bacau, besides the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and it offers such integrated services being conditioned by the existence of a coherent export strategy towards the companies from the North-East, South-East, Center and Northwest regions. From the beginning of the center activity, a number of 40 companies from the furniture industry as well as from the organic products area are assisted in the elaboration of export strategies and in supporting promotional events. This paper examines the evolution of this center and its importance in terms of increasing the capacity of the Romanian capital to enter the foreign markets. The conclusions of the study indicate that, in addition to overcoming the constraints noted above, firms in the region need support in increasing cluster and cooperative association capacity as an essential condition for exporting. The present material concludes that the activity of such a center must be organically integrated into a regional innovative ecosystem with other actors: territorial chambers, technology transfer centers, innovative hubs so that the center's contribution will be directed especially towards innovative managers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Given the fact that tourism is a positive option for economic development, international financial institutions have incorporated this kind of service among their main priorities. When carrying out a development strategy based on tourism, the opportunities that this sector offers must be taken into account, as well as the associated risks and threats. Because tourism is seen as a tool for economic growth and poverty alleviation, different entities want to finance projects that seek to achieve these objectives. According to the actors involved in these projects international cooperation takes different forms (multilateral, bilateral, governmental and business related). Multilateral entities activity is focused on global development finance, financial stability, financial cooperation and regional development. These aspects form a network that can influence, positively or negatively, the development of the economies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the general causes of terrorism and its impact on different sectors. During the past decades, the world has witnessed nearly twenty thousand terrorist incidents. Due to the increasing global scope of terrorism it has been raised important questions about its economic impact in countries around the world. While it was noted that terrorist incidents have a significant negative impact on tourism, investment, trade and capital formation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Drug trafficking is not just a social phenomenon, a public health issue or an item of criminology, it is also an important sector of the world economy. It is therefore justified its economic analysis in the present work, despite the imprecision of the data, because it is a product whose processing, transportation and consumption is prohibited in most countries. The present paper analyzes the evolution of the major drug markets worldwide and in the European Union. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]