Annals of the „Constantin Brâncuşi” University of Târgu Jiu, Economy Series, Issue 1/2018 „ACADEMICA BRÂNCUŞI” PUBLISHER, ISSN 2344 – 3685/ISSN-L 1844 - 7007 SHORT ANALYSIS OF REGIONAL DISPARITIES ÎN ROMÂNIA CEAUȘESCU IONUȚ ASSISTANT PH.D., FACULTY OF ECONOMIC SCIENCE, CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI UNIVERSITY OF TARGU-JIU e-mail:[email protected]Abstract The regional disparities in the development and living standards of the population, disparities existing before the creation of the Community, have been a concern for all the member states. The European Union's regional policy needs to encourage the harmonious development of the territory, enabling all regions of the Union to take full advantage of the opportunities offered by the single market and to contribute to the success of the economic and monetary union. The need for balanced development by reducing disparities between regions and helping the least developed countries was recognized in the preamble to the Treaty of Rome in early 1957, which also provided for the promotion of the labor force and the increased mobility of workers within the Community. We aim to analyze the main macroeconomic results indicators in this study so as to show whether, more than ten years after joining the EU, Romania has managed to reduce the existing development gaps at its level or maybe on the contrary these have been emphasized. The period under review of this study is between 2008 and 2017, but we are also attempting a short radiography of the future for this towards the horizon of 2021. Keywords: economic development, regional gaps, social cohesion, economic cohesion, regional disparities Classification JEL: R10, R11, R12 1. INTRODUCTION The complex problem of the dynamics of macroeconomic outcomes and their social effects is captured in the economic theory by a series of economic notions and categories such as reproduction, economic growth, economic expansion, economic development, economic progress and economic and social progress. In relation to the content and objectives of economic growth in the literature, a series of concepts are presented, such as: whereby economic growth consists of the ability of a country to provide increasingly diverse economic assets, capacity based on the use of high technology and institutional and ideological adaptations (US economist SK Kuznets); it consists in increasing the national income per total or per inhabitant (H.W. Amdt); economic growth is identified by increasing the size of the national economy expressed in total goods and services obtained over a period of time (including amortization) [1]. By synthesizing, we can define economic growth based on the process of increasing the total and per capita macroeconomic results, while modernizing the structure of the national economy and maximizing the efficiency of the production factors combined with different variants. The link between economic growth and development can be considered on the basis of the whole-part report; usually economic growth determining growth; not any growth determines economic development. environmental, political, etc. Disparities can be measured through several relevant indicators such as unemployment, income, investment, growth, and so on. Certainly, such indicators are not entirely independent, as exemplified, for example, in Okun's law that correlates economic growth with unemployment. The convergence of regional disparities is a complex phenomenon that refers to the mechanisms by which the welfare differences between regions could disappear. In the discussions on convergence, we can see that increasing attention is being paid to the opening of space systems, reflected inter alia in labor mobility, the movement of people in general between the region. [2] 105
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Annals of the „Constantin Brâncuşi” University of Târgu Jiu, Economy Series, Issue 1/2018
Source: http://www.cnp.ro/user/repository/prognoze/prognoza_profil_teritorial_decembrie_2017.pdf, data
accesări: 11.02.2018
At the horizon of the year 2021, according to the National Commission of Forecasting,
Bucharest-Ilfov region will remain with the contribution of the most important (21%), the regions
West, North - West and Center with weights ranging between 12 and 12,5%, and the regions North
- East and South - East will provide to 11.9%, respectively 11.4% of GDP on the economy as a
whole.
CONCLUSIONS The evolution of recent years shows that we can talk about maintaining economic
differences between regions. The ratio between the maximum values (West Region) and the
minimum (North East Region) of Gross Domestic Product per Capita is maintained constantly (the
Bucharest region has a very high GDP per capita.As for the hierarchy of GDP per capita over the
national average, in the horizon of 2017, it will remain the same in the sense that the West, Center
and Bucharest-Ilfov regions will overcome the national level (the first with a slight tendency
decreasing in 2015 as compared to 2014 and increasing Centru and Bucharest regions) and the
North - West, South - East, South - West, South and North - West will remain with a GDP per
capita below the total country. Reducing the gaps between developed and backward areas is a long-
lasting phenomenon as well as narrowing the gap between countries as well as developing
countries / countries progressing over time, albeit at slower growth rates. At the same time, we can observe that in more than 10 years from Romania's accession to
the European Union underdeveloped regions continue to remain in the back of the list in terms of
the indicators analyzed, in other words, the developed regions continue the development process by
increasing their the gap to the underdeveloped regions..
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