Household Income in Romania. A Challenge to Economic and Social Cohesion

Statistic data seem to indicate that the trend in household revenues in European Union is not of a nature to sustain economic and social cohesion. In Romania's case, such a conclusion is a solid reason to reconsider the fundamentals of the concept of economic and social cohesion at national level and, why not, at EU level. The studies carried out so far show a growing gap between the annual average total and money revenues of households/persons, one the one hand, and the annual average level of the gross domestic product per capita, on the other. Significant differences can also be seen between the amount and structure of individual revenues in the rural and urban areas. At a daily financial income of only 2.0 euro in 2005, and of 3.7 euro in 2013, the 9.2 million persons living in rural households in Romania are perfectly right to wonder if this should be the effect of the much acclaimed economic and social cohesion.