PUBLIC POLICY AND SOCIAL REALITIES, pages: 51 - 60, 2018

Supply - Demand Applicability on ESI Funds in Romania

Abstract: This paper applies theory of supply and demand on European Structural and Investment Funds. The question of low absorption rate in Romania is explained by using comparative statistical data from the National Rural Development Programme. The study also shows the characteristics of supply and demand in ESI Funds, it comes up with a possible solution to increase the country’s absorption rate in the future and it creates the premises of methodology for future studies on supply-demand applied to EU funds.