The Sustainability Approach of Romanian Agriculture

Transition in Romania has been perceived in an original way by the structures of society, social and political factors, but mainly by the economic one. Romanian society has been deprived of the existence of market economy for a long period of time; this made the transition period from statistic economy to a capitalist, market one to acquire some specific coordinates such as: high social costs, poor adaptability of the labour force to the requirements of market economy; low efficiency of economic sectors in relation to the economy of developed countries; lack of correlation between work productivity and salary requirements; unequal development of regions of the country, leading to greater social and economic disparities, reduced capacity to attract private investments; existence of the development gap between rural and urban environment; inadaptability of educational and health system to the current requests of economic and social development; irrational exploitation of natural resources, the high share of underground economy in GDP.