Although major economy's development along the 20-th century is mostly a result of industrialization, especially as an effect of industry expansion and of trading manufactured products, it is obviously that its impact over the human development is not limited to good production: through human...

The road transportation affects, more and more, in the last years, and, especialy, at urban levels, the environment and the human health. This is caused by the fast growth of the auto fleet and the trafic intensity. Unfortunately, the urban infrastructure doesn't help to solve this situation. It...

A key objective of regional development policy is to reduce disparities between regions and to ensure a relatively balanced level of development. To achieve this goal studies and social and economic analysis based on certain techniques and methods of evaluation are necessary. In scientific...

Regional convergence is a key objective of cohesion and balanced development at regional level. The existences of regional imbalances do nothing only delay the achievement this objective, requiring the emergence of viable and appropriate measures of the new European context. This article aims to...

This article aims to analyze and synthetically interpret the main theoretical contributions of regional development and their representatives, who had a significant scientific contribution, succeeding to print this approach to economic problems a transdisciplinary character. It also aims to...

This study has as general objective to evaluate regional disparities and the territorial convergence process under the impact of the cohesion policy, in the context of European Union integration. The specific objectives to which the research included in this work focused are the following:...

The general objective of this study is to evaluate regional disparities and the territorial convergence under the impact of the cohesion policy, in the context of the European Union integration. The specific objectives on which the research included in this work focused are the following:...

The evaluation process is a basic element of modern public sector management practice. If this process is well conducted, it can contribute to improved public interventions, increased transparency, accountability and cost-effectiveness. In the European Union, old Member States have a relatively...

Absorption of EU funds remains, in the sixth year of integration, a key objective of regional policy in Romania. Regional Operational Program (ROP) represents the most important instrument of regional policy, which it can compare and assess the situation and the forecast made of the projects...

Within the European Union, the impact of structural funds is evaluated periodically with the purpose of identifying the attainment degree of the convergence objectives and the efficiency in implementing the cohesion and regional development policy. The regional policy, assimilated in general to...