Creşterea economică a României între 1980 şi 2013

Stefanescu, Răzvan and Dumitriu, Ramona (2015): Creşterea economică a României între 1980 şi 2013.

Abstract

This paper explores the economic growth of Romania in three periods: the last decade of the communist regime (1980-1989), the transition from a centrally planned economy to a market economy (1990-2006) and the seven years that followed the adhesion to European Union (2007 – 2013). We approach several aspects of the economic growth: GDP evolution, the social impact and the relations with the other macroeconomic objectives. We find, for each period, some circumstances that influenced this process: the dramatic efforts to pay back all the foreign debt, for the period 1980-1989, the political and institutional instability during the transition period and, finally, the challenges of the European markets combined with the effects of the global crisis.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• English Title: The Economic Growth of Romania between 1980 and 2013
• Language: Romanian
• Keywords: Economic Growth, Economic Development, Poverty, Macroeconomic Policy.
• Subjects: N - Economic History > N1 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics ; Industrial Structure ; Growth ; Fluctuations > N10 - General, International, or Comparative; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O4 - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity > O40 - General; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O4 - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity > O49 - Other

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