We analyse in this paper the main achievements of Romania during the period of ten years since joining the European Union. The analysis is based on a proposed Index of Structural Changes constructed that express the overall progress in five areas: business environment, labour market, state...

Romania started the transition process by adopting a gradualist strategy for implementing its economic reforms, most of which being carried out independently and not through a concrete and cohesive policy package. The dynamics of restructuring on the labor market is analyzed by the Index of...

The relativity of poverty determines a certain degree of specificity in case of each country where the phenomenon is considerably spread over the population. In transitional countries poverty is determined to a large extent by the structural changes undertaken for adopting market rules in the...