Archive | Issue no. 5

Distributed Systems and Web Technologies

The information system shall represent the support of the put on and of the simplification of rules and administrative procedures in order to ensure a broad and non-discriminatory public access to public services and also to reduce tariffs for these services, along with the operating costs and the personnel costs. IT&C market and the major […]

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How Acceptable are the Costs Compared to Benefits Brought by Euroisation of Kosovar Economy

Since January 1st 2002 in compliance to UNMIK (United Nations Mission Interim in Kosovo) regulation no.1999/4, EURO (‘’EUR’’) is adopted as legal currency in Kosovo and it became the de facto currency of the country. All client accounts held in Central Bank of Kosovo (CBK) and in other commercial banks were converted in EUR by […]

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Nature Conservation Policies and Strategies

Humans dependence on nature is beyond doubt one of the most powerful evidence that supports the thesis of environmental protection. This relation is manifold and it was approached in various frameworks. The paper focuses on the conservation of nature in its narrow sense, meaning natural ecosystems and biodiversity. Although this topic is among the top […]

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Artificial Economy

This paper proposes to eliminate a routine in the economic thinking, claimed to be responsible for the negative essence of economic developments, from the point of view, of the ecological implications (employment in the planetary ecosystem). The methodological foundations start from the natural origins of the functionality of the human economic society according to the […]

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Tourism and Environment – Towards a European Tourism Policy

Environment and tourism interact in very close terms, the relation being strong and in many cases straightforward. The synergic interaction came into reality in several forms of alternative tourism with a very dynamic evolution in the last decades. Ecotourism, as the outmost of environment friendly tourism, attracts more and more consumers and determines communities or […]

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Conceptual Milestones of Sustainable Development Policy in a Global World

Environmental degradation is another issue that highlighted the drawbacks of the highly promoted economic relations in the last two centuries. In conceptual terms its solution was found in a variety of models out of which only sustainable development became a widespread support for policy making. The paper examines how the basic underpinning stands compared with […]

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Role of Central Bank in the Establishment and the Development of Financial System in Post-War Kosovo

The financial sector in Kosovo after 1999 was almost non-existent. At that time there were no banks functioning. On the 15 November on the same year has been established the Central Bank of Kosovo entitled as the Banking and Payment Authority of Kosovo (BPK). Now there are ten years past from the establishment of the […]

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Implementing Environmental Policies in EU – Action Plans and Programs

The main objectives of the EU environmental policy are environmental and public health protection, prudent and rational use of natural resources, and promoting international actions to solve the regional and global environmental problems. The EU policies implementation is performed by using specific tools as legislation, – notably Directives setting environmental quality standards (levels of pollution), […]

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Investigation of: “Shopping in the Market-β Mall”

Beta [β], the simple regression slope of the returns of the Firm matched with those of the Market is a powerful financial signaling statistic in vogue since the 1960s, and still very much in use by financial analysts and firm decision makers. However, as there are a number of ways that one can obtain a […]

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Developing Entrepreneurial Marketing Mix: Case Study of Entrepreneurial Food Enterprises in Iran

The purpose of this paper is to identify and exam the main elements of entrepreneurial marketing mix in entrepreneurial enterprises. Our focus in this study is on Iran’s top small and medium-size businessentrepreneursin2007, which possess a brilliant experience about entrepreneurial marketing practices. Accordingly, we aim to identify how these enterprises use their previous knowledge and […]

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Criteria for Allocation of Grants from the Central Budget for the Municipalities in Kosovo

ince the end of the recent conflict, UNMIK began its work with Kosovo authorities for establishment of the Government institutions (regardless of Kosovo’s final status settlement), there was always a feeling that the responsibility for Public Finance Management is a significant issue and it should bear an important place in the executive branch. Initially, in […]

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Considerations about the Relationship Between the Work Satisfaction – Marketing Capabilities and the Performance in the Performing Services Organisations

The purpose of the article is to present the relationship between working satisfaction, marketing capabilities and the performing services organisation. The article includes aspects reffering to professional satisfaction notion, motivation, motivational persistence, marketing capabilities, TQM, Competence – Based View as it results from the theoretical studies. It describes the undertaken research results in order to […]

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Decision Model on Financing a Project Using Knowledge about Risk Areas

The research presents an alternative to the classical method of measuring financial risk in funding a project. The goal of the model described in the paper implies identifying “risky areas” within the financial balance of the project. The model analysis the financial risk behavior studied along four scenarios by varying only the cost of financing […]

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Computing Cumulative Interest and Principal Paid for a Calendar Year

This paper demonstrates how easy it is use Microsoft Excel’s CUMPRINC and CUMIPMT functions to compute principal and interest paid for an entire year, even though the payments were made monthly. The CUMPRINC function computes the principal paid by a series of loan payments; the CUMIPMT function computes the interest paid. These two functions provide […]

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Management of Dues and Taxes Flow of Economic Entities

Dues and taxes, as a component part of cash flows can be managed according to general procedures of payment; this is the hypothesis, from which it starts, in what follows, in the assessment of payments management. A technique that characterizes especially the qualitative aspect of payments management is based on the formation of certain indexes, […]

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