ECONOMIC PERFORMANCES OF AGRICULTURE OF CEFTA AND FORMER CEFTA COUNTRIES
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https://doi.org/10.5937/ekoPolj1704413BKeywords:
Agriculture, Promethee method, Cluster analysis, EU, CEFTA.Abstract
All CEFTA countries had very similar stages of economic development after World War II. Many of them were centrally-planned socialist economies and the political changes that have occurred in these countries in the late 20th century caused changes in the whole economic system, as well as in the agricultural sector. Aim of this paper is to compare economic performances of agriculture of these countries with former CEFTA countries (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania and Croatia) which joined EU after 2004. The development performances of agriculture are considered according to the production and export performances of this economic sector, using a comparative approach. The results showed that there is a gap in development of agriculture between CEFTA countries and selected EU countries, so performances of agricultural sector are far from EU.
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