The development problems of the present society could be resumed in a synthetically manner as being included in two large conceptual categories: poverty and competitiveness. The EU action through regional policy consists in trying to cover all these types of problems, providing support both for...

The purpose of the paper is to analyse some results of cost-benefit analysis in a sample of ISPA (Structural Instrument for pre-accession countries) projects. The focus is particularly on the variability of financial and economic rates of return and how to integrate this information in the EU...

The European Union (EU) provides grants to disadvantaged regions of member states to allow them to catch up with the EU average. Under the Objective 1 scheme, NUTS2 regions with a GDP per capita level below 75% of the EU average qualify for structural funds transfers from the central EU budget....

Abstract. The decisions in the cohesion policy have a significant impact upon the offer and supply, in a way that, under the influence of the multipliers, they constantly reconfigure the components of the internal consumption (such as investments, private consumption and imports), and the...

The study is based on the critical observations that competitive market forces alone are not able to assure convergence with the developed countries. These observations are grounded on the results of the computation of the marginal rate of return to capital (which contradict the neoclassical...

This paper presents the evidence of the initial beneficial effects of Community Economic Development (CED) initiatives in Yorkshire and the Humber. The evidence is drawn from survey work undertaken as part of the formal evaluation of the region's 1994-99 Structural Funds Objective 2 programme....

BURCH M. and GOMEZ R. (2002) The English regions and the European Union, Reg. Studies 36 , 767-778. From the late 1980s on an elite-driven 'new regionalism' developed in the English regions, starting in the north. New region-wide modes of working by local authorities, business and other...

In this paper we try to estimate the impact of Structural Funds on the growth rates of Objective 1 European regions during the two first Programming periods (1989-2000). For that purpose, we develop a ''hybrid'' model of economic growth that partially endogenizes the rate of technical progress...

This paper is about European Union funds in Romania and tries to give relevant information on this aspect. The paper is addressed to all persons interested in this domain, especially for those that work in this sector (non-governmental sector, public institutions, etc) and that need to have a...

The EU budget review, launched by the Commission in 2007, is a unique opportunity to critically examine EU policies and instruments. Structural Funds are at the heart of the EU’s cohesion efforts, and amount to almost one-third of the Community’s budget. They have two declared objectives,...