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Reducing the fiscal burden – the only way out of the crisis

22.08.2010 · Promo Studies 1, Studies | No comments

The government is taking into consideration increasing VAT to 25% and the flat rate to 20%. This, however, would be a step too far. Excessive taxation, the increase of the bureaucratic apparatus, the ridiculous proposals for new taxes (besides the existing 484 parafiscal taxes in existence) are clear indications of a government which has lost ...
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The crisis of education in Romania. Analysis and solutions. (abridged)

22.08.2010 · Promo Studies 2, Studies | No comments

Investing in education is investing in the future. Our future prosperity depends to a good extent on the education of our children. The reform of the education system will produce not only people better equipped for the competition on the job market, but also a new political class. The current problems of the education system ...
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7 Principles for the Prosperity of Romanians

22.08.2010 · Promo Studies 1, Studies | No comments

1. A minimal state, only fairer and stronger. A state that would work for Romanians We need to enact a fundamental change of the state, one which would make the government more responsive to the needs of the citizens, particularly in these times of crisis. We need to see a radical change in the way ...
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The intervention of the State in the economy: between the minimal and the maximal State

22.08.2010 · Promo Studies 2, Studies | No comments

ccording to economic theory and to the comparative analysis of economic systems, there are only two systems of organizing economic activity: free market economy or Capitalism and state-directed economy or Socialism. Naturally, the two are ideal types, and are only rarely found as such in practice. With the exception of the last remaining Communist states, ...
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The liberal agenda for the invigoration of the Romanian economy (abridged)

22.08.2010 · Promo Studies 2, Studies | No comments

1. Errors made by governments in managing the crisis In order to devise a set of effective policies, the vulnerabilities of the Romanian economy must be identified. Unfortunately, the necessity to address these vulnerabilities seriously limits our freedom of action. For a long time, an unsustainable economic growth, based on over-sized consumption, which in turn ...
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Editorials  and analyses

Corruption in Romania: may it live long and blossom!

„The price of freedom is eternal vigilance” (Thomas Jefferson) The Democrat-Liberal Party, whose unofficial slogan is „shut your mouth!” did it again: following the public declarations of some preeminent members of ...
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Political Halloween in Romania

The government coalition is terrified. The protests which will take place today in Bucharest, and which will gather around 80,000 people according to their organizers, are described by the government ...
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Shall we have some tea?

In 1773, the British government passed the Tea Act, a law which made the East India Company the only entity allowed to sell tea in the American colonies and which ...
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