Regional Inequalities and Sigma Divergence in Romania

Goschin, Zizi

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“…Having previously underlined the European Union's strong orientation towards safeguarding competitiveness, we may further evaluate Romania's situation. According to Goschin (2014), Romania did not encounter substantial inequalities prior to its EU membership. In its transition phase, only the bigger cities have met an increasing progressive trend, regional inequalities starting to gain momentum after the country has joined the EU, despite all odds, because the structural and cohesion funds received were improperly integrated.…”

Section: Competitiveness and Poverty Reduction In Europementioning

confidence: 99%

Romania and its poverty-alleviating competitiveness: a Central and Eastern European outlook

Argatu

Pãunescu

2019

Proceedings of the International Conference on Business Excellence

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Competitiveness is a prerequisite for development and a critical ingredient for enabling national welfare in the nowadays challenging world, being more and more debated and approached by researchers and policymakers at the same time. Following these considerations, the article aims to illustrate Romania’s competitiveness ranking in fighting poverty and ensuring a decent level of living to people relative to the European Union’s positioning, through indicators comprised within the European Social Progress Index and the Global Competitiveness Index. The concern for this topic is backed up by prior research performed with respect to Romania’s social and economic competitiveness, claiming that the country has managed to improve its standing among European Union member states but it still has to struggle to get even better by following the best practices of these nations. Thus, there is a relentless need for the consolidation of both its economic cohesion by altering the quality of its infrastructure and institutions, as well as its social status through investments in education, knowledge and innovation. As for the methodology, the analysis of Romania’s competitiveness degree will firstly incorporate a literature review section, comprising poverty, competitiveness and competitiveness obtainment tools. The evaluation will also rely on document analysis of secondary data concerning competitiveness indicators retrieved from the websites of the institutions issuing them, namely Social Progress Imperative and World Economic Forum. The research intends to clarify how Romania can become more competitive in social terms, what fields require substantial progress and what the European Union countries can teach us in this sense.

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Section: Competitiveness and Poverty Reduction In Europementioning

confidence: 99%

Romania and its poverty-alleviating competitiveness: a Central and Eastern European outlook

Argatu

Pãunescu

2019

Proceedings of the International Conference on Business Excellence

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“…Analysis of these factors at Romanian level is carried out mainly in the context of the broader topic of regional economic and social disparities recorded (Pintilescu 2011, Benedek andVerres 2013;Goschin 2014Goschin , 2015Chirilă and Chirilă 2014). Regional disparities are considered a phenomenon specific to countries with emerging economies (Kuznetz 1995) whose economic development is carried out at different rhythms.…”

Section: Regional Demographic and Socioeconomic Development In Romanimentioning

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Post-transitional regional fertility in Romania

Jemna¹,

David²

2018

DemRes

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“…Not surprisingly, there is no simple robust theory of how such a system would work (see Duranton and Puga, 2000). Nevertheless, two general perspectives have been used to characterize the way growth is affected by the way individuals and firms react to spatial incentives: a neoclassical framework, or an endogenous growth perspective (see Goschin, 2015;Munteanu, 2015;Zaman and Goschin, 2014 for applications to Romania). 17 The former implies that wage discrepancies will lead people to vote with their feet to move to locations with higher income and productivity until they are indifferent between locations.…”

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“…Cumulatively, this system reduced the breadth of market potential for each city, and that limitation would, as Au and Henderson's (2005) analysis of China showed, slow the growth of cities. It also limited the ability 19 See Goschin (2015) on the uniformity of wages across Romanian cities in the old regime. to exploit the trade opportunities which, prior to World War II, and then again after the transition, were the country's main trade counterparts in Western Europe.…”

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“…Government-sponsored studies to investigate housing market contractual problems have so far focused on the contracting difficulties involved in transactions governing individual dwelling units rather than those governing buildings. 7 A secondary purpose of the paper to suggest that the housing Anti-commons problem in Romania may well affect the country's economic growth rate through its effects on the lack of regional income or wage convergence described by Goschin (2015) and Zaman and Goschin (2014). Both studies argue that the pattern of earnings behaviour across regions in Romania may have important growth implications.…”

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Housing privatization in Romania

Buckley

Mathema

2017

Econ Transit

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Over the past three decades, Romanian housing rights changed from a strictly managed public stock to one governed by individual decision-making. And while it is typical that widespread private ownership provides a basis for a well-functioning housing market, in Romania this has not been the case. Indeed, rather than creating a market that spontaneously allocates resources efficiently, housing privatization in Romania has created exclusion rights, thus creating an Anti-commons problem. This problem can have effects similar to those of the tragedy of the Commons in which those who share a common good overuse it. In the Anti-commons, in contrast, if too many owners have the right to exclude others from use of a resource, the resource is underused. In both cases, the rights allocation wastes resources.JEL classifications: R31, R32, R38.

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Regional Inequalities and Sigma Divergence in Romania

Cited by 13 publications

References 10 publications

Romania and its poverty-alleviating competitiveness: a Central and Eastern European outlook

Romania and its poverty-alleviating competitiveness: a Central and Eastern European outlook

Post-transitional regional fertility in Romania

Housing privatization in Romania

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