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Alexandru Pavel
Department of Public Administration and Management, Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, 400132 Cluj-Napoca, Romania

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Journal article
Published: 06 May 2020 in Sustainability
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This article aims at investigating and measuring the economic resilience of local communities (43 urban and 403 rural) in Romania. The study focuses on the implications of the deep economic and financial crisis from 2008 to 2011 and explores the capacity of Romanian local economies in the North-West region to respond to these events. The research consists of developing an appropriate framework for assessing and quantifying community economic resilience, based on previous research of existing literature, and of measuring local economic development through a composite indicator by aggregating a series of variables using principal component analysis. The results show some striking differences between urban and rural communities in terms of impact, recovery, and performance compared with a pre-crisis level. Through regression analysis we were able to not only identify the determinants/explanatory factors for high-impact resilience that helped the recovery after an economic shock, but also the resilience drivers for ‘bouncing forward’ after the crisis, for both urban and rural communities. Our findings show an interesting change in the regional economy: some economic activities from the large urban areas in Romania moved to the nearby rural areas.

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Alexandru Pavel; Bogdan Andrei Moldovan; Karima Kourtit; Peter Nijkamp. Urban or Rural: Does It Make A Difference for Economic Resilience? A Modelling Study on Economic and Cultural Geography in Romania. Sustainability 2020, 12, 3776 .

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Alexandru Pavel, Bogdan Andrei Moldovan, Karima Kourtit, Peter Nijkamp. Urban or Rural: Does It Make A Difference for Economic Resilience? A Modelling Study on Economic and Cultural Geography in Romania. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (9):3776.

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Alexandru Pavel; Bogdan Andrei Moldovan; Karima Kourtit; Peter Nijkamp. 2020. "Urban or Rural: Does It Make A Difference for Economic Resilience? A Modelling Study on Economic and Cultural Geography in Romania." Sustainability 12, no. 9: 3776.

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Published: 08 January 2019 in Sustainability
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Based on data collected for 398 communes from the North-West development region of Romania between 2007 and 2014, this article presents a local economic development (LED) index for rural communities and identifies the main factors which influence LED in these communities. Our results show that exogenous factors, such as location in the influence area of urban communities and the existence of a direct connection to the European Road Network, influence the level of LED. At the same time nor the aforementioned exogenous factors nor other exogenous factors, such as non-refundable investments programs in local core infrastructure (financed by the European Union and the Romanian Government) which were designed to accelerate/spur economic development, as well as direct connections to the National Roads Network, do not have any statistically significant influence on spurring/accelerating LED (at least in this short period of time).

ACS Style

Alexandru Pavel; Octavian Moldovan. Determining Local Economic Development in the Rural Areas of Romania. Exploring the Role of Exogenous Factors. Sustainability 2019, 11, 282 .

AMA Style

Alexandru Pavel, Octavian Moldovan. Determining Local Economic Development in the Rural Areas of Romania. Exploring the Role of Exogenous Factors. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (1):282.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Alexandru Pavel; Octavian Moldovan. 2019. "Determining Local Economic Development in the Rural Areas of Romania. Exploring the Role of Exogenous Factors." Sustainability 11, no. 1: 282.

Journal article
Published: 21 September 2018 in Sustainability
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This article investigates if public investments in rural basic infrastructure represent the best strategy for boosting the local economy of rural communities from Romania. The article focuses on one specific program implemented under the Cohesion policy in the framework of the National Plan for Rural Development, called Measure 322. Geographically, the research included a sample of rural communities from the North-Western Region of Romania. Moreover, the study also looks at other determinants of local economic development (LED), rather than infrastructure investments, with a focus on certain features characterizing Romanian rural communities such as population size, isolation from urban centers, connection with European and national roads networks, educational stock, etc. The research included three steps, namely the construction of the LED Index, a cvasi-experimental research, and a regression model. Our main findings seem to suggest that, while investments in infrastructure do help, the development gap between beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries remains relatively the same. In terms of determinants of LED level, percentage of population with a university degree and connection to a European road are the most significant in the Romanian rural context.

ACS Style

Alexandru Pavel; Bogdan Moldovan; Bogdana Neamtu; Cristina Hintea. Are Investments in Basic Infrastructure the Magic Wand to Boost the Local Economy of Rural Communities from Romania? Sustainability 2018, 10, 3384 .

AMA Style

Alexandru Pavel, Bogdan Moldovan, Bogdana Neamtu, Cristina Hintea. Are Investments in Basic Infrastructure the Magic Wand to Boost the Local Economy of Rural Communities from Romania? Sustainability. 2018; 10 (10):3384.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Alexandru Pavel; Bogdan Moldovan; Bogdana Neamtu; Cristina Hintea. 2018. "Are Investments in Basic Infrastructure the Magic Wand to Boost the Local Economy of Rural Communities from Romania?" Sustainability 10, no. 10: 3384.