Open AccessNew Assessment of Development Status among the People Living in Rural Areas: an Alternative Approach for Rural Vitality
Author(s) -
Costică Mihai,
Simona-Roxana Ulman,
Mihaela David
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
scientific annals of economics and business
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.204
H-Index - 6
eISSN - 2501-3165
pISSN - 2501-1960
DOI - 10.47743/saeb-2019-0013
Subject(s) - vitality , rural sociology , dimension (graph theory) , economic growth , scope (computer science) , rural area , rural management , rural economics , externality , rural settlement , public good , rural history , standard of living , index (typography) , economics , rural development , agriculture , geography , public economics , socioeconomics , political science , market economy , philosophy , theology , mathematics , archaeology , microeconomics , world wide web , computer science , law , pure mathematics , programming language
In the process of development, the rural areas meet a wide range of economic, environmental and social challenges. This study theoretically discusses the concept of rural development and attempts to evaluate the development status among the people living in rural areas. In this scope, we propose the personal rural development index (PRDI), which is composed to, on one hand, an individual dimension and, on the other hand, a community one, related to different aspects of rural vitality. In this regard, three socio-economic components, namely economy, education – including a sub-dimension regarding culture, and health – with an environment sub-dimension were considered. These dimensions are influenced by the rural activities, especially the agricultural ones, that generates, nearby the economic results, as main objective for the individual or economic agent, also a set of economic, social or environmental externalities, from the category of public goods and of which both the stable and transitional residents of the area benefit. So, the complexity of the personal rural development index is high, aiming to put into light both individual and public components. The data used was obtained through a survey applied in seven rural communities from the North-East Region of Romania.