Romanian Agriculture during the Interwar Period and the Demographic Effects of Its Development.

The interwar period was a time of major structural changes for the Romanian socio-economic environment, with new territories, resources and an almost doubled population being the main drivers of change. The aim of this paper is to carry out a pertinent analysis of the agricultural sector--the main economic activity of the country's population, as 13 of the 18 million inhabitants were dependent on agriculture--and to compare its development with the more dynamic evolution of the industrial sector, a comparison that reveals most of the factors that led to internal migration away from the rural area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]