The analysis of industrial clusters became a very actual topic for academic debates and for Governments trying to foster economic growth. In Romania, since the end of the 1990’s until the present day there have been many researches foccusing on the identification of industrial clusters and on the analysis of triggering factors which stood at their origins. All these studies concluded the fact that Romanian clusters appeared „naturally” through industrial attractiveness for direct foreign investments and in the absence of a regional policy to stimulate the formation of competitive productive agglomerations. On the other hand the regional development policy since the end of the 1990’s has led to the development of public clusters. Beginning with 2005, four cluster initiatives were promoted as instruments to grow competitiveness through collective learning.

This comparative analysis of unemployment (December 2008 – December 2009) during the current economic-financial crisis is based on county disparities (NUTS III) revealed by several statistical indicators, such as the general unemployment rate, number of the unemployed, the male/female ratio …

Unemployment in Romania During the Current Economic-Financial Crisis. Territorial Particularities Read more »

Europe has faced for several decades and is still facing an ageing process of its population. Within it, Romania, a country, striving to successfully integrate into the European Union, is also experiencing the same process. The ageing process of the …

Demographic Ageing in Romania’s Rural Area Read more »

During the last few years the international migration of our fellow citizens has become a day to day trifle. Even before accessing the European Union, Romanians had learnt what Europe stands for, what it aspires to and especially how the …

The Recent Dynamics and Structure of International Mobility of Moldavian Population Read more »

After providing a historical context covering the salient features of the last two centuries which have seen great changes in socioeconomic fortunes and political subordination, this article attempts aconceptualisation on Roma’s exclusion which constitutes an important part of the ‘poverty …

From (self-)exclusion to integration: the case of Roma in Romania Read more »

Author Affiliations Department of Geography, Liverpool Hope University, Hope Park, Liverpool L16 9JD United Kingdom Email: duncan_light@yahoo.com Abstract Imaginative geographies have become a central concept in Anglo-American cultural geography in recent years. We all form knowledge, ideas and beliefs in our …

Imaginative Geographies, Dracula and the Transylvania ‘Place Myth’ Read more »

The paper is aiming to analyze the distribution of sanitary resources in Romania and the consequences of its features on individual and public health. The main objectives of the study are being: to overall asses the sanitary activity in Romania; to analyze through an evolutionary and comparative perspective the Health Care delivery components, mainly the medical personnel and medical units; to identify the territorial inequalities in the distribution of sanitary resources and to evaluate the consequences derived from the present inequalities existing at the level of sanitary resources.

Author Affiliations Institute of Geography, Dimitrie Racoviţă St 12, 023993, Bucharest, Romania Email: radusageata@yahoo.com Abstract The fall of the communist regime and the demise of the bipolar political order have been factors for the development of globalizing connections on the …

The Recent Development of Commercial Services in the Context of Globalization. Case Study: Bucharest Read more »

Full text .pdf Le système national d’enseignement supérieur roumain était représenté au début de l’année universitaire 2004-2005 par 117 institutions, dont 57 d’Etat et 60 privées. Dans le cadre de toutes ces institutions, approximativement 600000 étudiants suivaient leurs cours, ce …

Geographical considerations regarding the Romanian higher education Read more »

Full text .pdf The paper present some problems of the developement and geographical repartition of the transport system, telecommunication networks and public services in Romania in the last part of the 20th century and their influence on the settlement system. …

Transport system, telecommunication networks and public services in Romania between 1990 and 2000 Read more »