The approach proposes itself, to identify the opportunities and restrictions for the rural development in a given rural area, made of four communes of the Arges County (situated in the Carpathian space), from a multicriterial perspective (demography, income sources, the utilized agricultural...

Starting from Romania’s economy position on the global competitiveness scale (on which Romania dropped by ten places in the last year), the agri-food sector being an important economic driving factor of the economy, the paper attempts to identify certain sets of macroeconomic variables...

The integration into the world trade and particularly along the chain of products with high value added, such as the vegetables chain, is considered as a promoter of growth and poverty alleviation (Aksoy and Beghin, 2005), even though this topic is subject to controversy. The paper’s...

The paper attempts to bring to public debate certain asymmetrical evolutions present in the complicated and difficult process of command economy transformation into a functional market economy, with a special focus on Romania’s agri-food sector. One of the economic phenomena acting as a...

On average, for the whole transition period, about 30-35% of the active population employed in agriculture has "generated" only 20-22% of the country's total GDP. Romania is confronted thus with an absolute and relative labor surplus lacking the necessary equipment and, hence, with a low...

The paper focuses on analyzing the influence of extensive and intensive factors from agriculture upon gross value added in the period between 1990 and 2000. The extensive factors are labor force and fixed capital endowment, while the intensive factors are gross efficiency of fixed capital and...

In this paper is given a method of assessing prospective aggregate demand for agrifood consumption in Romania using the empirical data that actual consumption presents as trend, for the period 1985-2005. It took into account as restrictions, two alternative model of growth, and only a variant of...

In the national economy system, the subsystems of agricultural production (ASPEFV) and of food production (PABT) are “anchored” to other sectors by a series of “backward linkages” and “forward linkages”. Representing, in fact, the intermediary consumption intensity in final...

The paper starts from the theoretical premise that the business environment of the operators from the agri-food economy is, greater influenced by the behaviour of certain essential macro-economic variables of the market economies. For this purpose, our methodological approach investigates the...

The effects of European integration upon the support to economic and social development in the EU Member States, upon the convergence process and bridging up the gaps between the Member States represents a field of particular interest, both for researchers and for practioners. In Romania, the...