Today in telecommunications, research and development industries work costs increase rapidly and the life cycle of products become shorter. In these sectors even the largest national markets are small in order to support research and development work. Companies have to expand their activity on international arena in order to develop research and technologies. The speed and suddeness of changes exclude even the world leaders. A lot of them feel that they are defeated by globalization, which changes the game rules. Companies that want to survive and develop their activity successfully have to adapt to the influence of globalization. One of the most powerful means to manage company in the context of globalization is alliances. The article determines the term of strategic alliances, their types and analyses the main points of their management in the context of globalization.

Straipsnyje nagrinėjamos technologinių inovacijų, skirtų sveikatos priežiūrai, sampratos, inovacijų rūšys pagal technologijas ir jų pagrindu sukuriamus produktus. Taip pat apžvelgiama dabartinė technologinių inovacijų poveikio sveikatai ir gyvenimo trukmei, kaip dažniausiai ekonomistų naudojamam sveikatos rodikliui, matavimo praktika. Remiantis esamais empirinių tyrimų duomenimis, autorės pasiūlo modelį, skirtą analizuoti skirtingų veiksnių grupių reikšmingumą vidutinei tikėtinai gyvenimo trukmei gimimo metu, ir patikrina modelį atlikdamos apklausą, siekiant patvirtinti modelio turinį ir kiekvienos modelio veiksnių grupės įtakos svarbą gyvenimo trukmei.

This article analyzes the impact of immigrants' educational attainment on employment in ag-ricultural, industrial, and services sectors. The research compares data of OECD-20 countries in the period of 1980–2010. The goal of the paper is to analyze the theoretical interpretations of immigra-tion and employment; to measure the impact of immigrants' educational attainment on employment by carrying out an empirical research in selected countries. Empirical analysis has been performed using the methods of descriptive statistics, correlation, regression analysis and System Generalized Method of Moments (GMMs). The results of the empirical research regarding the impact showed that high-skilled immigration has a positive and statistically significant impact on employment in industrial and services sectors, but the impact on employment in the agricultural sector is statistical-ly insignificant. Medium-skilled immigration has a positive and statistically significant effect on employment in all three sectors. However, low-skilled immigration has no effect on employment in either agricultural, industrial or services sectors.

Paper aims to assess the impact of agricultural and industrial activities on air pollution in world countries. The theory of assessing the impact of different factors on air pollution, scientific research on air and environmental pollution are presented and analysed. According to the literature review, three research hypotheses are presented (agriculture, industry and economic growth have positive relationship with air pollution, but at the certain economic development level, relationship between economic growth and air pollution becomes negative), fixed-effect model is composed, 177 world countries in 1995–2014 are analysed. The assessment of results has shown that agriculture and industry have positive relationship with carbon dioxide emission. The data estimation has shown that economic development affect air pollution.

Paper aims to assess if wealth and other taxes have an influence on income inequality and poverty in OECD countries. The theoretical aspects of taxes and their functions, the concept of wealth taxes and their effect on income inequality or poverty are analysed. The obtained results show that OECD countries have a different structure of wealth taxes; wealth tax revenue percentage of GDP is different in all OECD countries. Countries which have more revenues from wealth taxes tend to have a lower level of income inequality and poverty. The econometric calculations show that wealth taxes and all other taxes are statistically significant, and they have a positive effect on the society, i.e. they reduce income inequality and poverty.

Funding of healthcare services has recently become a hot topic among economists, thus is attracting new economists with various backgrounds and experiences. The aim of this article is to find exogenous variables which influence the demand for outpatient care services and provide a depoliticized and clear outpatient service funding index model. This is done by analysing the findings of other authors and forming of a possible conceptual model. The goal is to refocus outpatient care payments from being a political decision to a decision based on the market demands, that is – exogenous factors and provide a transparent and more representative funding model. The application of the Index for the years 2010–2015, has showed that in order to maintain the same level of quality of outpatient care services as in the year 2010, additional 130.30 million Euros were needed.

Straipsnyje apžvelgiami esami poveikio regionų ekonomikai vertinimo metodai, išskiriamos jų pagrindinės prielaidos, stiprybės ir apribojimai. Taip pat, išnagrinėjus metodų taikymo praktikoje empirinių tyrimų ataskaitas, pateikiamos rekomendacijos poveikio Lietuvos regionų ekonomikai modeliavimo priemonių pasirinkimui, akcentuojant pagrindinius organizacinius ir politinius veiksnius, į kuriuos turėtų būti atsižvelgiama atrankos procese.