Theoretical and Applied Economics
No. 2 / 2016 (607), Summer
The prerequisites of social development when planning for decentralization
National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Romania
Teodora I. BIŢOIU
National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Romania
Dragoş DINCĂ
National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Romania
Abstract. The issue of decentralization is widely debated, regulated and analyzed in official EU documents and literature. The research topic is extensive and includes the analysis of the economic dimension, legal and administrative dimensions that contribute to the development of an interdisciplinary research. The paper is part of a larger research project aiming to design a polar diagram for the periodical assessment of the degree of regional development and, in its first phase, it has already established and defined the areas and their specific indicators (i.e. Social Development and Economy & Market, Environmental protection, Governance and Regulation, Spatial Planning, Education and Training, Science and Research). In the second phase we aim to determine whether the local government has the management, economic and administrative capacity to facilitate the implementation of decentralization policies in various areas of development and what are the results obtained after applying the decentralization measures. The impact of local and regional policies initiated in order to facilitate the implementation of the decentralization process, must be analyzed through a regular monitoring of the fluctuations recorded by a comprehensive range of regional indicators whose development depends on the success of the decentralization process. This paper therefore aims to conduct a comparative analysis regarding the evolution of the key indicators on sustainable development, public health, education and training at the level of the eight development regions in Romania, trying to determine to what extent the evolution or the involution of these indicators at the level of the local government, is the result of the legislative package on decentralization, the effectiveness of the administrative management, or it is only generated by their economic particularities.
Contents
The prerequisites of social development when planning for decentralization
Testing the validity of the Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle: New evidence from structural breaks for Turkey
The role of institutional pressures in developing countries. Implications for IFRS
Children’s health insurance coverage in the United States: The role of parents’ ethnicity and immigration status
Axiomatical examination of the neoclassical economic model. Logical assessment of the assumptions of neoclassical economic model
An empirical investigation of banking sector development and economic growth in a panel of selected SAARC countries
A common agency within bureaucracy
From public services to networks of social enterprises. Strategic trends for South-Eastern Europe
The relationship between inclusive growth, inequality and poverty in Africa
Investigation of relation between foreign portfolio investments and stock prices: Time varying asymmetric causality analysis
Asymmetric stochastic volatility in central and eastern European stock markets
Bankruptcy prediction based on the debt ratio
The effects of saving-investment gap on economic growth in developing countries: A clustering and panel data analysis
Impact of educational expenditure on economic growth in major Asian countries: Evidence from econometric analysis
Developing a financial inclusion index and inclusive growth in India
A comprehensive view on the manifestations of aggregate demand and aggregate supply shocks in Greece, Ireland, Italy and Portugal
Examining the determinants of FDI inflows in India
A review of corruption based on the social and economic evolution of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome
Estimating the exchange rate in the context of Romania's integration in the Eurozone