MACROECONOMIC POLICIES AND FORESTRY IN ROMANIA
Autor (i): Alina Georgeta & Ailincă
JEL: E61, Q01, Q23
Cuvinte cheie: macroeconomics, impact, forestry, forest economics
Abstract:
This paper discusses the potential impacts of macroeconomic policies of Romania on forestry
and indirectly from forestry to macroeconomic policies. After the 1989 Revolution, macroeconomic policies
returned from a centrally controlled economy to a liberalized economy, and the impact of macroeconomic
policies (including laws and political decisions) on forestry development have been rather negative.
Privatizations that led to the dismantling of energetic and industrial complexes, lack of commitment and lack of
public accountability which led to deindustrialization, massive collective and individual lay-offs and the
degradation of the agricultural sector and the gradual loss of the economic and biological patrimony of the
country were the dominant elements that characterized the Romanian macroeconomic policies in the last two and
a half decades until now. Thus, the article tries to extract a series of theoretical and practical elements on the two
issues addressed: macroeconomic policies and the forests situation in Romania.