Emilian Dobrescu (born 22 May 1933,

Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ) is the capital and largest city of Romania. The metropolis stands on the River Dâmbovița (river), Dâmbovița in south-eastern Romania. Its population is officially estimated at 1.76 million residents within a greater Buc ...

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Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...

economist An economist is a professional and practitioner in the social sciences, social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy. Within this ...

and

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Career

In addition to serving as a member of the Romanian Academy, an influential academic forum in

,"Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics." Journal of Economic Literature 39 (June, 2001): 644 Dobrescu has published many books and articles on various topics in the field of economics.CV of Emilian Dobrescu, on www.romania-on-line.net
/ref> One of Dobrescu's recent studies was titled "Macromodels of the Romanian transition economy" and focused on the Romanian economy. It addressed possible economic policies that the Romanian leadership could implement to allow Romania to become more European. Some scholars point out that the policies he promoted were not always successful and played at least a small role in the failings of the Romanian economy during the 1970s.Janos, p.304 He served on the State Planning Committee from 1972 until 1982 and held leadership roles on the committee. Dobrescu served as the First Vice-President from 1972 until 1978, and as president from April 1981 until October 1982. Dobrescu is also a strong chess composer. He is co-author (with Virgil Nestorescu) of the monographs ''Compoziţia şahistă în România'' (1973, 312 p.) and ''Studii de şah'' (1984, 199 p.). He is the first Romanian to whom FIDE conferred in 1989 the title of Grandmaster of the chess compositions. Dobrescu lives in Romania.

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* http://romania-on-line.net/whoswho/DobrescuEmilian.htm
Dobrescu problems
at the PDB Server {{DEFAULTSORT:Dobrescu, Emilian 1933 births Living people 20th-century Romanian economists Romanian communists Writers from Bucharest Chess players from Bucharest Grandmasters for chess composition Romanian chess players