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Heritage Foundation and Wall Street Journal
Index of Economic Freedom determines (S),
assuming that economic freedom is a
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precondition for prosperity of individuals and
in turn a key driver for competitiveness.
Source: Index of Economic Freedom, Heritage Foundation, 2010
Chart no. 1 Rating States of Europe according to ILE
According to the results of this study, the
2010 edition, Romania is the 63rd country
in the world in terms of economic freedom,
and ranked 28th in Europe.
The Heritage analysis, Romania has
achieved a 64.2 index points above the
global average. After comparing the first
countries in Europe, according to each
indicator of economic freedom, Romania
has high scores for: free trade, fiscal
freedom, government spending, and
significantly lower scores than the best
countries in Europe obtained if : property
rights and freedom from corruption, as
these areas are necessary for developing
solutions.
Results of the study conducted by the
Heritage Foundation shows that Romania's
economy is moving towards a greater
economic freedom index.
5. Conclusions
For Romania, economic competitiveness is
a major component of national
development strategy for 2007-2013. For
this purpose a special program was
developed (Sectoral Operational
Programme ‘Increasing of Economic
Competitiveness ‘’SOP) in accordance
with the Lisbon strategy on improving the
economic competitiveness of the European
Union.
In full accordance with the conduct of the
Commission’s proposals for
Competitiveness and Innovation
Framework 2007-2013, the priorities of
Romania’s competitiveness strategy, which
take into account and take into account the
guidelines proposed by the Commission for
Cohesion Policy 2007 – 2013, are:
- Improving access to emergency market,
capital, technology businesses, especially
small and medium enterprises;