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Growth, Competitiveness and Convergence in Romanian Agriculture

Swinnen, Johan F.M.; Ciaian, Pavel - In: Agricultural Economics and Rural Development 5 (2008) 3-4, pp. 143-160

Farm fragmentation and the need for consolidation and investment remains a major problem for Romanian agriculture, as documented in this article. One of the key structural problems is over employment in agriculture, which puts a strong pressure on the land and constrains the supply of land for...

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THE ROMANIAN AGRI-FOOD ECONOMY – PERFORMANCE REDUCTIVE EFFECTS AFTER FIVE YEARS OF EU MEMBERSHIP

Toderoiu, Filon - In: Agricultural Economics and Rural Development 9 (2012) 1, pp. 25-45

Starting from Romania’s economy position on the global competitiveness scale (on which Romania dropped by ten places in the last year), the agri-food sector being an important economic driving factor of the economy, the paper attempts to identify certain sets of macroeconomic variables...

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Macroeconomic Variables Influencing the European Convergence of the Romanian Agri-Food Sector

Toderoiu, Filon - In: Agricultural Economics and Rural Development 8 (2011) 1, pp. 13-43

The methodological opening necessary to approach the economic convergence was based on a series of recent empirical … economy. The competitiveness, which generates convergence, is usually related to tangible results, such as continuous …

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RURAL REALITIES IN UKRAINE – SOCIO-ECONOMIC ASPECTS

Prytula, Khrystyna; Krupin, Vitaliy - In: Agricultural Economics and Rural Development 8 (2011) 2, pp. 255-266

Ukraine’ rural area is confronted with many social and economic problems, which have remained unsolved for decades, thus creating a significant gap between the rural area development and the conditions present in the densely populated areas. The development of rural territories is a difficult...

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Rural Entrepreneurship – Aggregation Factor of Local Stakeholders!?

Tudor, Monica - In: Agricultural Economics and Rural Development 5 (2008) 1-2, pp. 68-75

The Romanian rural area is characterized by high conservatorism, at attitudinal level, and to be an entrepreneur, under these circumstances, is a social innovation. Furthermore, this role is assumed in the conditions of an extremely unfavourable business environment. The present study intends to...

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THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR IN THE SOUTH MUNTENIA REGION: PARTICULARITIES AND TRENDS

Avramescu, Tiberiu Cristian; Ungureanu, Emilia - In: Agricultural Economics and Rural Development 6 (2009) 1, pp. 145-156

The paper presents the evolution of the agricultural sector in the South Muntenia region in the period 2000-2006, highlighting the characteristics of this sector, which is very important for the economy of the region. The paper reveals the contribution of the agricultural sector to the regional...

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Managing Agricultural Change: Evidence from Ireland

Hubbard, Carmen - In: Agricultural Economics and Rural Development 7 (2010) 1, pp. 37-55

This paper examines key features of Irish agricultural transformation following accession to the European Union (then the European Economic Community). More precisely, it focuses on the trends of agricultural structural changes and the major policy measures that influenced these changes, between...

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THE IMPORTANCE OF REGIONS IN THE REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT POLICY OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

Mateoc Sirb, Nicoleta; Otiman, Păun Ion; Mateoc, Teodor; … - In: Agricultural Economics and Rural Development 6 (2009) 1, pp. 61-78

The principles of the regional development policy at European level were taken into consideration even since 1957 with signing up the Treaty establishing the Economic European Community that stipulates that the Community mission is, among others, to promote throughout the Community a harmonious,...

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ROMANIA’S PRESENT AGRARIAN STRUCTURE: A GREAT (AND UNSOLVED) SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC PROBLEM OF OUR COUNTRY

Otiman, Paun Ion - In: Agricultural Economics and Rural Development 9 (2012) 1, pp. 3-24

The present paper is based on the idea according to which the present situation of the Romanian agriculture, its development level and the development of rural area in its most part, are largely determined by Romania’s agrarian structure. The paper investigates Romania’s current agrarian...

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Real Economic Convergence – European and National Dimension

Toderoiu, Filon - In: Agricultural Economics and Rural Development 6 (2009) 2, pp. 159-180

the convergence process and bridging up the gaps between the Member States represents a field of particular interest, both … for researchers and for practioners. In Romania, the governmental policy with regard to the economic-social convergence … Convergence Program 2008–2011 was designed. It is considered that the complex economic-social convergence process from any country …

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