Reflections on the impact of the Association Agreement Between the Republic of Moldova and the European Union on the economy of the national rural space

Simion Certan and Ion Certan

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: European authorities have given and increased attention to rural areas. Still in Agenda 2000, the European Commission has included "coherent sustainable rural development policies". Moldova is "condemned" to pay more attention to rural areas, as the majority of the population is located here. Moreover, the share of the rural population increases from 52.6% in 1990 to 57.5% of the total population in 2016. The approach of the rural development problem is also conditioned by the difficult condition of the village. Incidentally, paragraph (d) of Article 68 of the Association Agreement between the Republic of Moldova and the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, of the other part, initialed in November 2013 (hereinafter referred to as " Agreement "), urges us to" exchange knowledge and good practices on rural development policies to promote the economic well-being of rural communities ". The basic unit of the rural area in our country, in administrative terms, is the village, which according to the "European Rural Country Book" [14,9] is assigned the following functions: economic, ecological, socio-cultural. The article meditates on the economic function, which includes the sustainable use of natural resources, the development of an efficient agricultural production system, the promotion of tourism and other services. As a result, the authors come up with some proposals that would contribute to the sustainable economic development of the national rural economy.

Keywords: rural space; resources; agriculture; ecology; cultural values; efficiency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q12 Q15 Q17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-11-16
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Published in "Agrarian Economy and Rural Development - Realities and Perspectives for Romania" ISSN 2285-6803, ISSN-L 2285-6803.8(2017): pp. 248-256

Downloads: (external link)
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/85174/1/MPRA_paper_85174.pdf original version (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pra:mprapa:85174

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany Ludwigstraße 33, D-80539 Munich, Germany. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Joachim Winter ().