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It is not surprising that the present world crisis has strongly affected Romania , in many different sectors of the economic, political, social, financial life, etc. As an answer to the economic crisis, which we are all affected by, different strategies, reforms and models of economic growth are worked out, yet no one talks about what is maybe the most important aspect , that of the human stock. The possible explanations behind the economic crisis are multiple and very much discussed, but what is not much taken into consideration is the drastic decrease of the population and its significant tendency to grow old. The natality decrease, in time, leads to the reduction of the consumptive society, to the supply diminution, and as a consequence, we can state that the degradation of the demographic processes, as a matter of fact, represents the basis of the economic crisis.

Generally speaking, the population migration, and especially that of the workforce, has become a widespread phenomenon in Romania since the fall of communism, representing, maybe, one of the most important migratory fluxes at European level. Nowadays, when the economic crisis has hit Europe, when the majority of the developed countries perform a more rigorous control over immigration, they are the most affected by a slow down of the economic growth. This being due, mainly, to the industries in which immigrants are employed, or to the vulnerability of the type of jobs which are immediately put at risk by a negative change in the country's economic strength.