NONPARAMETRIC METHODOLOGY FOR THE RATING EVALUATION OF SUSTAINABLE RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA

I. Danilov, Valentina Stici, A. Racul

Abstract
   The main objective of the paper is to develop the nonparametric methodology for the evaluation of the rural localities development level. To accomplish this task, it is necessary elucidating the weaknesses and threats of sustainable rural development and reflecting them in the Strategy for the Development of Agriculture and Rural Area of the Republic of Moldova for the years 2014-2020. For the realization of this tasks in the research methodology we had done the theoretical foundation of the sustainable rural development by elaborating the survey of households and defining the economic indicators based on the principal component analysis. The elaboration of the nonparametric methodology for evaluating the sustainable rural localities development level is done by identifying theirs rating based on the IPAR_TFP software. It is done a comparative analysis of the districts of the Republic of Moldova according to the sustainable development level in order to identify the economic-social factors share within the basic compartments of the rural area.