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AUTHOR
Borisov Daniela
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DIGITAL DEVELOPMENT AND QUALITY OF LIFE IN ROMANIA: A NUMERICAL CHARACTERIZATION
2012
Starting from the idea that any economic growth must also generate better living conditions, a range of statistical indicators were developed for evaluate standard of living and quality of life. As the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the most recognized indicator, we have tackled its evolution, in spite of the recent criticism in the literature around GDP usage that is made by researchers focusing on finding more complex indicators. These indicators should accurately reflect changes in the standard of living (and especially in the quality of life) generated by expansion of a new kind of economy called digital economy. In this study, it is conducted an exploratory research using historical d…
AN EMPIRICAL EXPLORATION IN ASSESSING THE DIGITAL SKILLS FOR ROMANIA
2012
The idea of the paper was inspired by link between the process of digital skills` acquiring and the evolving digital divide. There are referred some evaluations on the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as related to different facets of computer and internet skills. Some methods are involved to make a picture of the current situation on Romania in this domain: comparative statistical analysis, and the decile approach and z-scores. The countries of interest were Sweden and Finland as very competitive EU state members in the development of the information and knowledge society and economy and the newest EU state members Romania and Bulgaria.