Revista de Economie Mondiala/ Journal of Global Economics

20-39

Authors: Sarmiza Pencea

In recent years, China has engaged in a complex economic rebalancing process, which includes three large and interrelated categories of reform packages: reforms addressed to rebalancing demand, to restructure supply and to geographically balance the country’s development. As part of the supply-side restructuring endeavour, the reform of manufacturing is an unavoidable component of the transformation that the Chinese economy will undergo up to the half of the current century. On its depth and magnitude will depend both the success of China’s transition to the status of a developed economy, and the health, balance and well-functioning of world markets and the world economy as a whole. This article demonstrates the importance of reforming Chinese manufacturing, it delineates its current landscape alongside its major issues, and looks at China’s new industrial strategy, with its distinctiveness, aims and challenges ahead.

53-66

Authors: Dorina Clichici

The purpose of this article is to briefly analyze the current situation in the health system in Romania and to identify its deficiencies and gaps in comparison to other EU Member States. The research is based on the analysis of health indicators with an impact on growth and development, which are structured around three pillars: efficiency of the national health system, level of development and resilience of the system, and accessibility of the health system. The paper highlights the fact that, despite all the reform steps made so far,the current public health system in Romania is inefficient and poorly financed, and is characterized by an exodus of doctors abroad, a poor health of the population and a low access of the population to health services compared to other European countries.

76-85

Authors: Victoria Folea

Starting from 2004, the countries from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) joined the European Union (EU) and became the group of “new” member states. They participated as full members in the EU framework programmes for funding research and innovation for over thirteen years, including Horizon 2020(2014-2020). Although their participation in EU programmes for research and innovation is not different from the „old” EU member states (EU-15), there are however differences in terms of number of successful projects winning European competitions and of EU funding attracted for R&D activities. During the last years, however, differences within the group of CEE countries have also become apparent, with some of them emerging as truly research-intensive. The present paper analyzes the participation of CEE countries in Horizon 2020 from the perspective of EU and national funding for R&D and innovation activities, and the European research projects won in Horizon 2020 competitions, with the aim of establishing which of them are the most active and successful in research and innovation, nationally and at the European level.