CUPRINS - Universitatea George Bacovia

Galina Valovaia, Irina Oboroceanu, Elena Oboroceanuvegetables. $US 106.1 million of "Vegetable products" were exported, 16.5% oftotal exports. The most exported goods are sunflower seeds, nuts, apples, grapesand soya beans.Light industryThe light industry is the second most developed sector of Moldovaneconomy and the first comparative advantage of Moldova. It includes about 200enterprises, more than 60 of which export clothes, textiles, carpets, suitcases,shoes, and leather articles. The huge part of these enterprises is the legacy from thesoviet period, and the newly created are the joint-ventures. The advantages of thesector include the cheap labor force and high labor productivity. "Textiles andclothing" accounted for 16.7% of all exports in 2002. Clothes made from importedfabrics are the most important sub-sector within this group. The collaboration withthe foreign partners and the carrying out of the orders from the European customersimproved the management quality, equipment upgrade, design, quality standardsadequacy. However this process gave birth to the other tendency – lack of the owndesign and management ideas, that hampered the enterprises activity. The CISexports have increased over the last years that still can be extended.ServicesThe services sector is underdeveloped in Moldova; there is need forsufficient investments for the development of those services, which may be offeredin the international level. The significant advantage could appear to become ruraltourism, highly demanded in the European market.Machinery construction, metal processingThis sector of Moldovan economy in 1992 – 1993 served a comparativeadvantage of national economy, while it continued operating in frames of the oldsocialist liaisons. But in process of transition it proved to be inefficient because ofthe high dependence on the imported raw material and energy. Besides, during thisperiod the plants were subject to conversion in frames of the weakened economyand the insufficient investments, what made the industry our comparativedisadvantage. "Machines, apparatus and electrical equipment" were exported 3.9%of the total. These included pumps for liquids, batteries, tractors, radio equipment,washing machines, etc.The world models of development do not suit transition economies. Thedevelopment model by the high-income states is not the way for Moldova becausethey have undergone it over centuries, and if we choose their pace, we will alwaysremain some steps behind them as the new industrialized countries do. Thedeveloping countries have undergone the first two – three types of specialization484