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Estimation of the Role of the Agricultural Sector in Central and Eastern European Countries Applying Input-Output Analysis

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this study is to analyze the role of the agriculture in the economy of four Central and Eastern European countries: Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and Czech Republic, highlighting the main differences. To perform this analysis we applied the input-output analysis method that can be used very well to determine the role and relative importance of each sector in terms of its contribution to the production, value added, income, employment and so on in the economy of a country or region, to analyze the intersectoral linkages, as well as to identify the key sectors. The study is composed in the following way: after the introduction, in the fi rst section we present the methodology and data source, in the chapter two we discuss the characteristics of the agricultural production in the countries analyzed, and in the chapter three we present the results of the input-output analysis regarding the role of the agriculture in the national economy, the structure of the agricultural output from demand and supply side, the relation of the agricultural sector with the other sectors and the result of the key sector analysis based on output, employment and income multipliers. In the last section some conclusions regarding the role of the agriculture in the economy of the analyzed countries are presented.

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