Economica

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Authors: Oleg STRATULAT

Repayable financing is one of the oldest practices for financing agriculture. Agricultural credit, in the past, but also in the present, is an important concern of credit institutions such as banks, non-bank lending organizations, savings and loan associations, etc. Agricultural credit remains one of the main instruments for financing the agricultural business, as demonstrated by the practice of the last decades in the Republic of Moldova. The analysis of the bank agricultural credit evolution is imposed as a way to highlight both the trends in its dynamics and to elucidate the existing deficiencies in the agricultural producer – bank relations. The results of these investigations also serve to support the arguments for the bank lending modernization in agricultural business, determined by the general peculiarities of agricultural production and the current economic situation, in order to maintain competitiveness in agricultural markets and promote agricultural development.

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Authors: Nicolae PLATON, Tatiana VIERU

There is a wide range of tools that are used to manage the energy sector, and the number of these tools is constantly growing. These tools include integrated energy planning. A tool of great importance for the energy system operation at the level of increased performance, integrated planning of energy resources can contribute to the acceleration of this sector’s evolution strategy, to changes in the behaviour of operational management, to choosing and imposing an energy system architecture, which could functionally overlap with the national energy system. Through the present research, the authors have set themselves the objective to identify viable solutions regarding the development of the country’s energy sector, using the integrated planning tool of energy resources, as an optimal way to make the energy sector more efficient.

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Authors: Ion PARTACHI, Valentin POPA

Comparative analysis, in the light of statistical evolution indicators that characterize the innovative activity of SMEs in Bucharest, aims to outline the companies situation, over a period of almost 20 years. Analysis in dynamics, with the latest available indicators data, concerns not only the situation at the Bucharest municipality level at a certain time, but also the comparison with similar SMEs indicators with research and development-innovation (RDI) activity in Romania. Econometric approaches pursue the goal of developing appropriate models for this period and of producing short-term predictions, and the criteria for choosing the prediction accuracy, they allow us to draw pertinent conclusions. To quantify the existing situation regarding SMEs, a rather small number of indicators have been taken into account, due to the lack of their dissemination.

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Authors: Igor MELNIC, Anatol GRAUR

Supply chain management is designed to meet customer needs, achieve high performance within the organization and identify the ways in which companies continue to innovate, learn and grow. As a result, the goals of the support chain management are to reduce costs, waste, time compression, flexibility in response capacity, reduce delivery time, eliminate stock breaks, etc. In order to achieve business objectives and goals, making sound and timely management decisions, entities need a system of performance indicators. In this way, businesses identify results by determining how they meet customers’ needs, understanding their processes, identifying problems, bottlenecks, losses, substantiating decisions to be taken, monitoring implementation and results of decisions taken, etc.