Regional Disparity Analysis: The Case of Romania

The present research has several starting points. First, the researchers have considered the strong regional tradition of Romania. Second, the research takes account of the must and need of applying sustainable regional development policies, the European objective being to reduce disparities, which were quite deepened in the last 50 years among the country's regions. An analysis was thus needed to identify the situation of the regions of development in Romania, an analysis that can be considered when establishing the options regarding the attitudes towards the future of a local or regional administrative unit. In this regard, based on the points of view of Polese (1994) and Duvernay (1981), the present research puts forward a model for assessing regional disparities, in the context of the current economic crisis, pursuing an analysis of the regions of development at the beginning of the crisis, which overlapped with the end of a period of sustained economic growth. The model involves mainly labor productivity, simultaneous changes registered by productivity and employment, subsequently leading to the identification-at micro-regional level-of types of conditions favorable or less favorable to development. Applying this model to the regions of development in Romania, the study aims to identify the current status of these regions of development, calculating the average rates of the three indicators included in the model (GDP, productivity and employment)-for each region separately. The study highlights the existence of a center-periphery structure type, indicating extreme difficulty in identifying a viable pattern regarding diffusion of beneficial effects for the community-from areas benefiting from concentration of industrial and tertiary activities towards other areas.

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regional disparities ； regions of development ； administrative-territorial units ； regional development policies

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