Creşterea economică a României între 1980 şi 2013[The Economic Growth of Romania between 1980 and 2013]

This paper explores the economic growth of Romania in three periods: the last decade of the communist regime (1980-1989), the transition from a centrally planned economy to a market economy (1990-2006) and the seven years that followed the adhesion to European Union (2007 – 2013). We approach several aspects of the economic growth: GDP evolution, the social impact and the relations with the other macroeconomic objectives. We find, for each period, some circumstances that influenced this process: the dramatic efforts to pay back all the foreign debt, for the period 1980-1989, the political and institutional instability during the transition period and, finally, the challenges of the European markets combined with the effects of the global crisis.