A few years ago, the expert public was discussing the consequences of consolidating the EU countries' representation in the IMF's Executive Board. The main idea was that EU members should be split into two constituencies. - the first one with members of the eurozone and the other a members outside the eurozone. The subject of this paper is to analyse the voting power in the Executive Committee of the International Monetary Fund using the Penrose-Banzhaf Index (PBI) and the Koleman's Index (CI). The aim of the paper is to express the power of voting and the possibility of blocking certain decisions in relation to the position in the constituency. We will also take a look at the characteristics of the official missions of the IMF in order to determine the importance of the results and recommendations arising from the visit of the IMF team to the country.

Cilj rada je da se ispita korelacija između dostignutog nivoa tehnologije i inovacija i razvoja finansijskog tržišta, indeksa humanog razvoja i bruto domaćeg proizvoda po glavi stanovnika. Istraživačko pitanje glasi: „Da li su, i u kakvoj vezi, nivo tehnologije i inovacija sa indeksom razvijenosti tržišta, indeksom ljudskog razvoja i BDP-om po glavi stanovnika?” Cilj istraživanja je da utvrdimo da li ima osnova za verovanje da je „kopiranjem” određene zemlje po nivou digitalizacije i inovacija moguće dodatno razviti finansijsko tržište, uticati na nivo ljudskog razvoja ili na povećanje BDP-a po glavi stanovnika. Metode korištene u radu su regresiona analiza, odnosno prosta linearna regresija, te analiza i sinteza prethodnih istraživanja i teoretskih nalaza, da bi zaključci bili izvučeni metodom indukcije. Rad predstavlja doprinos autora ekonomskoj teoriji i praksi, te široj javnosti. Rezultati istraživanja još ukazuju i da bi bilo racionalno da finansijski posrednici u zemljama u razvoju razmotre izmjenu svojih poslovnih modela i mogućnosti za njihovo prilagođavanje ubrzanim tehnološkim promjenama.

Fruit germplasm plays an important role in the glob a agrobiodiversity and is a source for both a direct use of fruit genetic resou rces as well for fruit breeding programme. The ex-situ field collection is still the main way to successf ully conserve fruit germplasm. Thirty pear accessions fr om Bosnia and Herzegovina were characterized during three years in the ex situ collection maintained by the Institute of Genetic Resources of the University of B anja Luka. The following characteristics were determined: flowering time, harv est maturity time and global tree architecture. The obtained results showed that 53.3% of pear accessions flowered during all three years, 40% of them during two years and 6.7% of them during only one year. The most present tree archite tur form was upright. According to the harvest maturity time, extremely ea rly ccessions were the most represented, than early, medium and very early pear accessions. Conserved pear germplasm in this ex situ collection represents a valuable material for dire ct use and future breeding programmes.