DEVELOPING IT&C DOMAIN PREMISE OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN ROMANIA
In the information society, economic fields with advanced technology represent the main vector of development in consonance with the sustainable development of human society. The paper examines the evolution of economic sectors with high technology as the main component of the information society in Romania compared to EU countries, both in terms of number of companies and also production value, value added at factor cost, gross operating surplus, etc.. It is used to analyze statistical data from the years 2008-2012 from Eurostat databases, Undata and the National Institute of Statistics.
STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE EVOLUTION OF RESEARCH-DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY IN SOUTH-WEST OLTENIA DEVELOPMENT REGION IN 2002-2010
The importance of research and development activity is undeniable in supporting economic competitiveness on medium and long term. The evolution of research development activities differs from one region to another, Southwest Oltenia Region recorded a low level of them. The evolution of the structure of employees in research and development in the South-West Oltenia Region on counties highlights that in Dolj county is the largest part of the employees in this activity. Places 2 and 3 were alternating counties Valcea and Gorj with a number of employees between 126 and 190 people in Gorj County and between 185 and 219 people in Valcea County. In terms of expenditure for research-development activity, South-West Oltenia Region ranks sixth among the regions, and in the region Dolj holds the firs position.
Deliberative Democracy and the Resource Curse: A Nationwide Experiment in Tanzania
Oil and gas discoveries in developing countries are often associated with short-sighted economic policies and, in response, calls to insulate resource management from populist impulses. We report on a randomized experiment testing methods to overcome this apparent tension between sound resource governance and democratic politics. Soon after Tanzania’s discovery of major natural gas reserves, we invited a nationally representative sample of voters to an intensive public deliberation of policy options featuring nationally recognized experts and small-group discussions. Democratic deliberation reinforced the public’s strong preference for rapid spending of gas revenues, but also increased support for various prudential and economically orthodox measures, including independent oversight of gas revenues, limits on government borrowing, and selling gas abroad rather than subsidizing fuel at home. These effects were driven by deliberation per se, rather than a pure information treatment, and show no evidence of contamination by facilitatoror peer-effects in group deliberations. www.cgdev.org Justin Sandefur, Nancy Birdsall, James Fishkin, and Mujobu Moyo