The Sustainability of Fish Consumption in Romania: Customer Behaviour prior and after the Country's Adherence to the EU

Using two sets of bivariate analyses in SPSS, we have tried to find out how sustainable the fish consumption in Romania is. We have used numerical variables, computed based on primary data obtained from Eurostat and the National Institute of Statistics. Two different timespans have been considered: the one prior to the country’s adherence to the European Union and the one after. Using the two timespans let us compare the pre- and post-adherence situations, in order to see if the subsidies offered by the EU have had any effect on the sustainability of the environment

Education and Training Needs in the Field of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Lower Danube Region

Given the conditions of European Strategy for Labour which was ratified also by Romania, that states an intensifying implementation at national level of labour policies and especially those regarding young person labour market integration, and taking into consideration the great human and agricultural potential of Lower Danube Region, we consider the implementation of national and regional programmes in order to train agriculture and rural development specialists to be very necessary. This article inquires the necessity of training agriculture and rural development specialists within Lower Danube Region in the context of cross-border cooperation between Romania and Bulgaria. This research starts by analysing the European and national legal framework of adult training in those two fields. Subsequently, the main premises and advantages of those activities were emphasized. It is good to mention that the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest, Romania, and the D. Tsenov Academy of Economics in Svishtov, Bulgaria, proposed themselves to cooperate in the field of “human resources development – common development of skills and knowledge”. The legal base exists as the Romania-Bulgaria Cross-border Cooperation Programme 2007-2013 is enforced. Furthermore, a four years comparative study of the number of persons trained for the main jobs in rural area, including farmer, in Lower Danube Region was conducted. All these led to the idea that it is necessary to continue and to stress adult training of farmers and rural specialists as a solution for rural economy development and social welfare. Also, comparative analysis of supply and demand of professionals in the field of agriculture was elaborated. The main educational programs in training agriculture and rural development specialists were identified and some problems and perspectives were worked out. This research can be considered as a first step of future deeper and profound collaboration of Tsenov Academy of Economics, Svishtov and the Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest in terms of creation of common Romanian-Bulgarian Research Area, as a part of European Research Area (ERA). It includes joint knowledge and skills development through cross-border linkages and exchanges between the universities, in accordance with Romania – Bulgaria Cross-Border Cooperation Programme 2007-2013.rural development, agriculture, training, cross-border cooperation, Lower Danube Region

Romanian rurality within a modern conceptual model

According to the Lisbon Declaration and to the necessity of growing Romanian economy competitiveness in knowledge based society, we consider requisite frontier research in agrifood field in order to lead to superior outputs of feld producers and traders and to adopt higher competitive behavior. Research demonstrates the opportunity of elaboration of a modern conceptual model for rural economy development: agrifood industrial city, able to provide economic growth of Romanian agrifood sector in knowledge based society. Also, the research reveals possibilities of higher life conditions. In order to demonstrate this, analysis and synthesis of studies, reports, articles and other materials including empirical studies and statistics on this topic were conducted

Multidimensional Facets of Entrepreneurial Resilience during the COVID-19 Crisis through the Lens of the Wealthiest Romanian Counties

Sustainable socio-economic development can be looked upon from multiple perspectives, but no longer without considering the roles of urban planning, smart cities and eco-innovative entrepreneurial initiatives. In the context of the COVID-19 crisis, ensuring sustainable socio-economic development is definitely challenging, but not impossible if adopting appropriate measures. This research aimed at analyzing the multidimensional facets of entrepreneurial resilience during times of crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in Romania, while focusing on the effects experienced in the wealthiest areas, specific to urban agglomerations. The research method consisted of constructing a composite indicator comprising appropriate components for assessing the level of wealth and “happiness” of all the Romanian counties. Through the lens of this composite indicator, entrepreneurial resilience was approached in multiple manners according to its diverse forms. Research findings highlight that entrepreneurial resilience tends to be stronger qualitatively and quantitatively in less developed areas than in those that are well developed, mainly due to the lack of entrepreneurial initiatives. Despite being less entrepreneurially resilient, qualitatively, the wealthiest Romanian counties can economically reinvent themselves quicker

The Analysis of the Potential Environmental Benefits by Investigating the Hedonistic Price

Consumers get some usefulness from the attributes of heterogeneous products and they adjust their acquisitions as a response to the existing differences. Producers or vendors confront with varying prices depending on the scale of attributes provided. A plan for balancing the prices is developed as a consequence of the market interaction between the consumers and suppliers (by analogy it happens in the case of the interaction between employees and employers on the labour market). Taking into consideration the late concepts regarding hedonistic price, the article presents a way of analysis of potential benefits that environment may offer to human communities by hedonistic price investigation, using regression as instrument

The Analysis of the Potential Environmental Benefits by Investigating the Hedonistic Price

Consumers get some usefulness from the attributes of heterogeneous products and they adjust their acquisitions as a response to the existing differences. Producers or vendors confront with varying prices depending on the scale of attributes provided. A plan for balancing the prices is developed as a consequence of the market interaction between the consumers and suppliers (by analogy it happens in the case of the interaction between employees and employers on the labour market). Taking into consideration the late concepts regarding hedonistic price, the article presents a way of analysis of potential benefits that environment may offer to human communities by hedonistic price investigation, using regression as instrument.regression; environmental benefits; variation explanation; hedonism.

HOW FAR FROM THE EURO AREA?

The article performs a comparative analysis between the European Union member states from Central and Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Romania) in terms of real economic convergence with the Euro area. Specifically, the paper emphasizes the assessment of the time required to catch up with the average level of GDP per capita in the euro area. To determine these developments, we use a system of chain indices, calculated based on the growth rate of the GDP per capita. Assuming that the average growth specific to the period 1999-2014 will continue in the future, the results illustrate that the shortest period of catching up belongs to Poland, while Croatia remains by far the most distant country from the euro area

Socio-economic Aspects of Rural Romania

AbstractThe socio-economic impact of structural changes that have affected Romania since 1989 is still being felt. The test of crossing towards market economy still wishes to be passed, although, economic legislation and public administration were harmonized to European model.Strengthening private property through restitution of approximately 95.6% hectares of agricultural land between 1991 and 2005 was the key moment in this process of transition. Since then, the image of the Romanian agriculture and rural areas experienced important changes, individual farms enjoying a numerical domination and determinating a new structure of the rural economy.Given the problems rural Romania is facing, as well as the objectives of the next stage of EU financial programming 2013-2020, and, in addition, Europe 2020, a clear and coherent situation of rural Romania's situation is required. Rural Romania has an important share, totalling around half of the total population and most of the land. The economic and social results of these areas are far behind those obtained in other regions of the EU, but they shall be aligned. The discrepancies are large, but ought to be recovered.This paper defines rural Romania, trying to explain the concept using OECD methodology in the field. The scientific approach aims to establish the main features of rural Romania, using statistics, particularly by analysing the social and economic aspects. A comparative study between Romania and EU in rural areas, defined as OECD methodology, is conducted and revealed the pour results at economic and social level

OPERATION AND EXPANSION OF ROMANIAN AGRICULTURE PRODUCERS GROUPS

In order to develop a model for development of Romanian agriculture is needed study in force and effect legal framework and its application on Romanian agriculture producer groups, to establish legal forms of association and cooperation between producers and processors on pathway product. To achieve this research were used documentation, comparative analysis, synthesis, statistical analysis. Processed data were used in the national legal framework, the National Rural Development Plan 2007-2013, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development