8/12/2019 The Development Potential of Romania
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migration as a bad thing but a high degree of mobility is a good
thing. !n the one hand a high
degree of mobility indicates that people in Romania have the
education and skills that allow
them to find "obs in developed economies. !n the other hand the
e#perience and skills ac$uired
by Romanians abroad will be important for the future development
prospects of the country.
%evelopment is inherently uneven & don't get scared by the
unevenness try to embrace
it. %evelopment re$uires a shift of resources (people ideas
capital) to areas where they can be
more productive. These are usually areas with greater economic
mass. *n fact almost every
country in the +, has a higher level of economic concentration
than Romania. *f you hope to be
as developed as the rest of the +, is you should welcome
concentration not fight it. !ver time
as Romania will become more developed regional differences in
welfare will even out & the
same way it has happened in more developed countries.
%evelopment is about people not about regions or cities.
Romania's development
strategies should not focus on regions or cities but on its
people. -hatever you do some regions
will develop faster than others. This means that some regions
will lose people (usually the
lagging regions) while other will gain people (usually the
leading regions). *f your goal is topromote balanced regional
growth you will almost certainly fail. *f however you aim to offer
as
many people as possible access to opportunitiesby providing
essential institutions (especially
public security education and health care)and good
infrastructure you will create right
conditions for healthy and rapid development and with a more
efficient use of limited public
resources.
Romania has a very important advantage over other developing
countries & it is close to
the place with the highest economic mass in the -orld/ -estern
+urope. *t should take full
advantage of this and try to build on it through further and
deeper integration in +urope. This
will re$uire not only investments in strategic infrastructure
(highway connections are critical in
this respect) but also a focus on encouraging the movement of
people within this space.The type of investments it has done in the
past but allocate those in a more strategic way/
*nvestments in institutions (e.g. schools health care centers
public services infrastructure &
water sewage gas etc.) everywhere.
onnective infrastructure with priority for leading areas
(particularly infrastructure that
connects people to the growth poles) and for lagging areas with
high population density (such as
the orth+ast).Targeted measures for marginalied groups whose
access to opportunities is
affected by e#ternal factors (e.g. ethnic discrimination).
