Economic growth is one of the most important issues of humanity. Both in national economies and world economy, recession and prosperity periods are regularly succeeding with different amplitudes. But beyond these fluctuations and their effects, the results are important: performance and economic...

The European Union Leader initiative is an important chance for the development and tightening of the rural-urban continuum in Romania. Fundamental elements of this initiative are the local action groups. These local action groups are conceived rather as an ad hoc framework for exchanging ideas,...

Discrimination in Romania was not a subject of open debate for a long time. In post-communist period several steps towards this research direction were taken, this field of research becoming more widely once with the European Union accession in 2007. In this article we study ethnic...

This article aims to examine the factors affecting the implementation of local action groups in Romania. A relatively new member state, Romania has the highest share of EU rural areas which generates and maintains a long series of regional disparities. Because of these disparities, the economy...

The concept of rural development, from the perspective of recent history, is based on the sustainable development. Rural development approach can be made ??from several perspectives. Rural development involving equitable and balanced economic development, with high levels of social cohesion and...

Nowadays, understanding and identifying economic freedom means the existence of an institutional frame, rules which guide human behaviour in a predictable manner. Approaching economic freedom from an institutional point of view is consistent with the political processes and their consequences as...

For Romania, the rural area represent a difficult problem because it has a high share. During the communist era, a forcefully reduction of the rural share was undertaken through various means, most often destructive (Ailenei, 2001). Even the transition to a market economy has failed to improve...