RESEARCH ON THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF SOUTH-WEST OLTENIA REGION

Within this scientific paper is being analyzed the economy of South-West region of Oltenia, in Romania. This analysis highlights an evolution of certain indicators such as: regional gross domestic product; gross domestic product per capita; number of active companies; the staff in active local units; turnover in local active companies; gross and net investments. South-West region of Oltenia recorded a percentage of 12.3% of the country's total surface and at the same time, it has numerous landforms, along with a variety of natural economical resources. This area is both specialized in producing thermo and hydroelectric energy and in agriculture, using large plots of land. Nowadays, one could observe an increase of inter and intraregional disparities. There must be attracted massive investments all over this region in order to reduce unemployment rate. In this paper there are being introduced the main economic indicators, estimated from 2015 to 2017. In order to realize this scientific paper, there have been used data given by the National Institute of Statistics and by the National Committee of Prognosis.