Various research studies addressing the specific problems and difficulties in the underdeveloped regions in the transition countries from Central and Eastern Europe have identified possible reactions regarding appropriate economic and social policy measures. Some of them take into consideration...

The international migration of health professionals is for the last decades an issue that affects many developing countries, rising in some cases alarming consequences and inequalities in health services distribution. Romania is also confronted with this phenomenon, which started to appear more...

The economic and social cohesion policy of the European Union has two inter-related components, namely the vertical cohesion, referring to the alleviation of social disparities and the solidarity with the disadvantaged social groups, and the horizontal cohesion, which concentrates on the...

This paper provides an overall image on the degree of vulnerability to crisis of the Romanian counties using a series of statistical measures such as location quotients, Herfindhal specialization index, composite territorial development index, the regional distribution of FDI in relation to the...

This paper addresses the question of convergence in real wages across Romanian counties, while putting a spotlight on the recent economic crisis, which has hit hard the entire economy. Following the main methodological trends in the literature, convergence methods were applied using the...

The management of municipal properties represents a major component of the public management and for the well-functioning and development of municipal property the creation of a strategic portfolio of municipal property is necessary. This paper discusses the employment of the multi-criteria...

Research and development (R&D) is largely acknowledged as a key factor to promoting economic growth nationally, as well as regionally. The topic of regional development has been receiving special attention in Romania for almost two decades, while regional innovation and competitiveness have only...

Persistenta fenomenelor de divergenta a traiectoriilor regionale de crestere economica limiteaza impactul politicilor de dezvoltare teritoriala echilibrata, mentine sau mareste inegalitatile. Regiunile unei tari prezinta atât asemanari, cât si deosebiri, iar identificarea gruparilor tipologice...

The paper „Typology and Planning of the Tourism Regional Development in Romania” presents a succinct approach of the general conceptual background of regional science, context in which have developed also the theoretical elements on the typology and planning of the regional economic growth....

As an important emigration country, Romania benefits from significant remittanceinflows that sustained the increased domestic consumption and may have also contributed to thestrong economic growth prior to the recent economic crisis. Our empirical research aimed toinvestigate, by means of...