Author: Florica BordâncPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Agricultural Restructuring and Rural Transition in Romania
Author: Florica BordâncAgricultural Restructuring and Rural Employment in Romania
Author: Nigel SwainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Restructuring and Transition of Agrifood Sector and Rural Areas in Romania
Author: Romanian Agriculture and Transition Toward the EU
Author: Kenneth J. ThomsonPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739105184
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Of the ten Central and Eastern European countries that have applied for membership in the European Union, Romania ranks among the largest and most impoverished. Romania represents the final challenge in the European Union's enlargement to the east, largely due to its major, but underdeveloped, agriculture and food sectors. The agriculture industry, which is a major component of the national economy, extends its pervasive influence to both Romanian social life and environment. Consequently, the transition towards a market oriented economic system will pose new obstacles for the country's farmers, processors, traders, and policymakers. While identifying the impediments that surround Romanian agriculture and its inevitable progression towards transition is a simple task, the challenges lie in recommending solutions. Through careful analysis of numerous recent studies on reform policies in the Romanian agri-food sector during its economic transition, this comprehensive examination offers perspicacious suggestions and insights on the following topics in particular: international trade, credit for agricultural development, price policies, and rural development. The conclusions reached are not only of domestic importance and application, they are also of immediate relevance for many post-socialist countries, for which the agri-food sector is a principal vehicle for rural development.
Agricultural Restructuring and Rural Development of Romania with Regards to Accessing the European Union
Author: Păun Ion OtimanPublisher:
ISBN: 9789739813228
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
The Transition from Communism to the European Union
Author: David TurnockPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The Transition from Communism to the European Union provides an overview of economic change in Romania, and studies in detail the transformation in industry, energy and agriculture, drawing on fieldwork in all parts of the country. The monitoring of the economic press throughout the post-communist period has also yielded much source material. Although the political context is examined at some length, the prime consideration is economic restructuring, involving the establishment of a free market system after decades of government control through central planning. It is made clear that the process is still not complete since global competitiveness remains a major challenge now that many people are beginning to experience a degree of prosperity.
Rural Development Strategy
Author: Csaba CsákiPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821348093
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
With the larger role that the agricultural sector plays in the Eastern Europe and Central Asian (ECA) region, emphasis must be placed on the sector's sustained growth and prosperity. The Bank strategy for rural development in the ECA region during the early phase of transition emphasized the reform of agricultural policies and assistance in privatizing, restructuring, and rebuilding agriculture and agro-industrial complexes. In retrospect, it can be seen that the ECA countries concerned made the right choice when they set their objective to transform their socialized agriculture into a private-ownership and market-based system. Given the developments of the past decade, it is clear, however, that the initial expectations for the outcomes of such reforms were overly optimistic. The transition process in agriculture is far more complex than originally envisaged by both the countries themselves and the international community, including the Bank. Increased social problems and alarming growth of poverty have added a new, unexpected, dimension to the transition process. As the analysis indicates, the region's rural economy is still struggling to adjust to new economic realities, and this will require further refinement and adjustment of the Bank's approach as well. This volume, based on an overview of recent regional developments, summarizes the revised World Bank assistance strategy for rural development in the ECA region.
Cooperation in the Romanian Countryside
Author: Rachel Sabates-WheelerPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739110447
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The collapse of communism in Romania held the promise of a revival of private, small-scale farming; however, the Romanian transition experience has not fulfilled these expectations. This book explores why farmers continue to place land in cooperative forms of farming when theory suggests that private farming is more productive, and whether there are efficiency gains to be had from cooperative farming endeavors.
Rural Space and Rural Development in Romania
Author: Marioara RusuPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The rural space of Romania is characterized in terms of administrative breakdown, area and population, with reference to the NUTS classifications. This is followed by a demographic analysis of the gender and age structures, as well as migration flows. The rural-urban flows are considered, as is the employment structure in rural areas. Then, the farming sector is analyzed, both with respect to its productive and factor characteristics, and the farm population features, over the period of systemic transformation. It is noted that farming intensity has gone down altogether on almost all accounts, while privatization of farming has been overwhelming. At the same time, during the transformation, there have been disadvantageous phenomena within the farm population (decrease of average acreage). Against this background, the institutional infrastructure of the Romanian agriculture and rural economy is considered, including various ownership and association forms. It is proposed that an adequate restructuring of Romanian agriculture would require a developed and pronounced agricultural policy, as well as significant outlays.
Peasants Into European Farmers?
Author: Katy FoxPublisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3643801076
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
This is an ethnographic analysis of how the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) was deployed by policy makers and elites in the first year after EU membership, and how it shaped peasant livelihoods. Given the polarised nature of Romania's postsocialist agrarian structure, the CAP excluded peasants from its policies, and demanded they change their subsistence farms into commercial farms. Arguing from the premise that subsistence farms are actually peasant households working on different principles from farms altogether, it was possible to inquire into the resourceful strategies people deployed in their everyday lives.