5th International Scientific Conference on Recent Advances in Information Technology, Tourism, Economics, Management and Agriculture – ITEMA 2021, Online/virtual, October 21, 2021, CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS published by the Association of Economists and Managers of the Balkans, Belgrade; Printed by: SKRIPTA International, Belgrade, ISBN 978-86-80194-51-6, ISSN 2683-5991, DOI: https://doi.org/10.31410/ITEMA.2021

Abstract

As the pandemic force started to affect the whole world in the first part of 2020, Romania’s economy and society made no exception; as the pa­per shortly presents the effects and perspectives brought by this pandemic upon humankind, the main focus of the paper is a region in Romania, Bihor county, respectively. It presents how COVID-19 influenced normal econom­ic-social activity, and the way the Romanian government reacted to this global problem, through different instruments, such as subsidies. The main purpose of this article is to present the way COVID-19 affected a region in an Eastern European country and the way the Romanian government searched for a solution in order to reduce the negative influences of this plague. The main method of analysis is based on statistical data collected by and from a regional employment agency from Bihor county (AJOFM-Bihor).