Am 1. Mai 2004 sind - neben Malta und Zypern - acht mittel- und osteuropäische Länder der Europäischen Union (EU) beigetreten. Im Januar 2007 folgten Bulgarien und Rumänien. Mit dem Beitritt von insgesamt zwölf neuen Mitgliedstaaten haben die Disparitäten innerhalb der EU deutlich...

Marginal rural areas are undergoing major pressures from the effects of globalization, especially when no alternative has been found to conventional extensive agriculture and a lack of investments and vision squeezes the income of farmers. The objective of the paper is to show how Integrated...

We can say that one of the main problems of the Romanian rural area is the high levels of poverty recorded among people in rural areas, where the main activity is agriculture of subsistence and semi-subsistence. Another problem is the state of infrastructure in the area, lack of utilities...

This paper analyses the impact of Rural Development Program (RDP) measures focusing on tourism have on the growth of tourism and on the economy in rural areas. We first explored tourism in NUT2 regions in the EU with a spatial data analyses and then we applied spatial econometric analyses on...