REDUCING URBAN - RURAL ECONOMIC GAPS. CASE STUDY ROMANIA 

STANEF Mihaela Roberta, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest

Abstract:
The paper underlines that both the incentive and the concrete design of strategies/procedures are powerfully triggered by the environment of the program meant to reduce the gaps, i.e. the individual restricted rural structure circumstances. The transferability of ‘good practice’ is given to a partial extent only. However, this paper provides a fine indication of ‘what can be done’ and, in spite of the heterogeneity of European rural areas and the recognized types of social capital initiatives, the comparative study of the various approaches allows for the elaboration of some general recommendations to be followed when appealing in rural progress policy design based on social capital.

Keywords: Europe 2020 Strategy, urban and rural areas, labor market, economic gaps, rural policy

JEL Classification: R00, R11, R20, R23, R28

Volume: 65, Issue: 1

Pages: 92 - 108

Publication date: , 2013

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