Competitiveness Presumes a Reinforced Cooperation

’The basic requirement of competitiveness is the reinforcement of cooperation, whereas corruption is a general contractual failure’ argues Károly Mike, senior research fellow of HETFA, in his interview given to the Financial Review Online [Pénzügyi Szemle Online]....

People Prefer Living instead of Making Something Develop

’People prefer living instead of making something develop’ asserted Balázs Szepesi, strategic director of HETFA at the community development conference in Tolna county. He presented development plans and needs collected on the basis of the Tolna County Regional...

Key Channels in Increasing Employment

Interview with Klára Major and Tamás Tétényi at portfolio.hu Employability of labour force and macroeconomic conjuncture are channels of greater importance in increasing the rate of employment than direct job creation measures. Analyses conducted by our researchers...

Repairing the Clock Blindly with Hammer

The rate of competitiveness of Hungary has never been that low as this year. Hungary was ranked 63rd from previous years’ 48th place in the Global Competitiveness Report of the World Economic Forum. As regards the members of the European Union, we are lagging behind...

Greatest Challenge: Forecasting Human Behaviour

“In case of public policy programmes the assessment of awaited socio-economic impacts shall become part of our mindset; impact assessments are supposed to help decision-makers” highlighted Klára Major, economist, senior research fellow of HETFA Research Institute in...