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Inter-Communal Cooperation and Regional Development: The Case of Romania

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  • Săgeată Radu

    (Institute of Geography, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania)

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Romania's local administrative-territorial organisation shows a high degree of fragmentation. The situation tends to worsen as some villages break away from the parent communes and form new administrative-territorial structures. Since their area is fairly small and adequate financial resources to sustain some coherent, long-term development programmes are missing, a solution would be for them to associate freely into inter-communal cooperation structures, which is a basic prerequisite for attracting European structural funds. Such a type of cooperation practice was experienced in this country at the beginning of the 20th century. Today, inter-communal cooperation could be achieved in two ways: by an association of local communities patterned on historical ‘lands’ (after the French model) and by the establishment of a town, of the metropolitan type, to polarise cooperation structures.

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  • Săgeată Radu, 2012. "Inter-Communal Cooperation and Regional Development: The Case of Romania," Quaestiones Geographicae, Sciendo, vol. 31(2), pages 95-106, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:vrs:quageo:v:31:y:2012:i:2:p:95-106:n:10
    DOI: 10.2478/v10117-012-0022-8
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