Crisis after the Crisis: Economic Development in the New Normal

1. Synthetic composite indicators for monitoring changes in countries' development rankings - a bibliometric analysis.- 2. Motivation "after work": the right to retire versus the right "not to retire".- 3. Assessment Models of the Digital Economy and Knowledge-based Societies in Europe.- 4. Economic Growth Through Financial Development: Empirical Evidences From New Member States And Western Balkan Countries.- 5. Capital markets union and international risk-sharing.- 6. FESBAL-UPM Food Bank Chair and the Service-Learning Projects from the "Working With People" perspective.- 7. Economic Aspects of the Innovative Alternatives Use in Agriculture.- 8. Scenarios for the allocation of direct payments under the CAP National Strategic Plan 2023-2027: coupled support.- 9. Romanian agri-food products competitiveness - an analysis using trade balances and unit values. Did the COVID-19 crisis influenced it?- 10. The Economic and Social Impact of Increasing Electricity Prices. Estimates, Analysis and Predictions.- 11. Maintaining green goals in disruptive times. Evidences from the European energy sector.- 12. Transition to a low carbon economy and the impact on the urban regeneration process.- 13. Analysis of the Changes Induced by the COVID-19 Crisis in the Structure of Daily Electricity Consumption.- 14. The importance of R&D in reducing CO2 emissions from passenger transport.- 15. The effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the tourism sector. New challenges .- 16. Effects of COVID-19 pandemic crisis on vulnerable groups in Romania. Social policy responses.- 17. The special employment centers: The Spanish response to the insertion of people with functional diversity and its impact on the social economy.- 18. Geospatial characteristics of unemployment for the period 2010 - 2020 in the South-West Oltenia Development Region, Romania.- 19.  Urban village - a trend accentuated by the

Luminita Chivu is Managing Director and Senior Researcher at the National Institute for Economic Research "Costin C. Kiritescu" (INCE), Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania. Her research focuses on economics of agriculture, rural development, labor market, economic growth, European integration, economic restructuring, industrial relations and working conditions.

Ignacio De Los Ríos Carmenado is Full Professor for Engineering Projects at School of Agricultural, Food and Biosystems Engineering (ETSIAAB, UPM). Director of GESPLAN Research Group: "Planning and Sustainable Management of Rural-Local Development Projects". His research focuses on project management, urban/rural development, teaching methods and behavioural competences.

Jean-Vasile Andrei is full professor at Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti, Department of Business Administration and Ph.D. mentor in economics at Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania. He is co-founder andscientific coordinator of the Research Network on Resources Economics and Bioeconomy (RebResNet).