MAIN CURRENT TRENDS IN THE WORLD ECONOMY IN THE CONTEXT OF ENSURING EXTERNAL ECONOMIC SECURITY

Abstract

At the current stage of global confrontations between the great powers, the issue of ensuring national economic security has become pressing and absolutely necessary. Starting from strategic interests and the balance of powers at global and regional level, we will try to assess the main economic trends, which will define in perspective the configuration of the external environment, in which the Republic of Moldova will struggle to increase the welfare of its citizens in the coming years. This paper offers a new approach to ensuring the external economic security of a small state, the area of priority economic interests, emphasizing that even at the regional level, there is a reconfiguration of power, which cannot be ignored while examining the ways of economic growth of the Republic of Moldova over a long period of time.

Keywords

• world economy
• economic growth
• national economic security
• globalization
• economic power ratio