Evolution of national - international trade in the period before the economic and financial crisis for selected economies

摘要

The world economy has evolved in recent years amid some obvious inequalities and disparitiesnationally manifested on different levels, including the participation in international trade. This studytook into account the two ways of approach, namely: evaluation and analysis of existing differencesbetween the countries participating in global trade, on the one hand and development of a hierarchyamong them, on the other hand, in terms of export, import and trade balance. Therefore, the analysismethodology specific to regional series was used, namely the territorial statistical indicators andmulticriteria ranking. We also considered the changes made to the country with the best performance inthe period 2002 to 2008, time for which official figures were used at the time of the study. The data usedin the study have been taken from on-line databases available on the website of the Romanian NationalStatistics Institute: http://www.insse.ro/ and they refer to 41 countries for which information wasavailable, data processed in order to be harmonized by authors, taking into account both the emergingcountries (China, Romania, Greece, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Slovenia, Nigeria, Brazil etc.) and theeconomically developed countries (USA, Germany, Japan, United Kingdom etc.).