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Sunday, March 20, 2011

Nouriel Roubini : Romania has the potential to attract Foreign Direct Investment

During a keynote speech someone from the audience asked Dr. Nouriel Roubini what he thinks of the situation in Romania , hiw answer was (the transcript is below the video ):

Nouriel Roubini : Romania has the potential to attract Foreign Direct Investment in the manufacturing segment."
"The type of the global economic crisis, Romania - as many countries in Central and Eastern Europe - has faced serious economic and financial challenges: increasing the budget deficit, current account deficits, overvalued currencies. Romanian State (as Lithuania, Hungary and other Central and Eastern European countries involved in an IMF program) was under strong financial pressure and needed the support of the international community.There were omissions in this program and the ability to control the indebtedness of the state was a challenge. The international community expresses its financial support for Romania and for its efforts. Romania is a country that, thanks to geographical positioning and low cost of labor may attract FDI, especially in the segment of production. Thus, they can only sustain the economy. We have to balance their taxes, this is really a challenge for Romania and other countries in Central and Eastern Europe. "

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Nouriel Roubini, (born March 29, 1958, Istanbul, Turkey), Turkish-born American economist and educator who was best known for predicting the 2007–08 subprime mortgage crisis in the United States and the subsequent global financial crisis.

Born to Iranian Jewish parents, Roubini moved with his family to Iran and Israel before they settled in Italy in 1962. After a year at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he studied economics at Bocconi University in Milan (B.A., 1982) and Harvard University (Ph.D., 1988), where he specialized in macroeconomics and international economics. He joined the economics faculty at Yale University in 1988 and taught there until 1995, when he moved to New York University. He also served as a visiting scholar to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), was a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), held single-year terms on the White House Council of Economic Advisers (1998–99) and at the U.S. Department of the Treasury (1999–2000), and cofounded (2004) the consulting firm Roubini Global Economics. Roubini spent much of his early career studying countries that experienced extreme economic failures, such as Mexico (in 1994), Thailand and other countries associated with the 1997 Asian financial crisis, Russia (1998), and Argentina (2000). He determined that each shared one common element: a massive current account deficit.(www.britannica.com)

Nouriel Roubini is the Chairman and CEO of Roubini Macro Associates, LLC, his own global macroeconomic consultancy firm. He is also a professor of economics at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Dr. Roubini has extensive policy experience as well as broad academic credentials. From 1998 to 2000, he served as the senior economist for international affairs on the White House Council of Economic Advisors and then the senior advisor to the undersecretary for international affairs at the U.S. Treasury Department, helping to resolve the Asian and global financial crises, among other issues. The International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and numerous other prominent public and private institutions have drawn upon his consulting expertise.