Romania-Japan Round Table, September 2, 2014

Romania-Japan Round Table, September 2, 2014

Institute for World Economy of the Romanian Academy

Guest: Mr. Koji KASAI, Director, Europe Department, Japan Center for International Finance, Tokyo, Japan

Topic – Country study: Romania

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1. Current situation and the schedule on privatization of the state-owned companies

a. Number of SOEs, Output of SOEs and Debt amount of SOEs, record of privatizations

b. Problem of SOEs privatization

2. Absorption of EU Funds

3. Prospect of adoption of EURO

4. Effect of Ukraine crisis

5. Industry

a. Foreign enterprises

  • Percentage of foreign enterprises in Romania
  • Prospect of  relation between foreign and domestic enterprises

b. Strategy to grow

  • Important points for Romania to grow

6. International trade and Balance of payments, and other topics

a. Trade

  • Measure to stimulate export

b. Income revenue

  • Reason of Increase of Income deficit past several months

c. Non-performing loan

  • Reason of increase of NPL and future prospect of NPL

d. Current situation of Bucharest of Stock Exchange

e. Prospect of relation with Japanese enterprises

  • Most important fields to cooperate with Japanese companies
  • Expectation to Japanese government and Japanese companies