This chapter is the final one (no. 12) in the report.

This paper analyses income distribution effects of investment support granted under the EU Rural Development Policies (RDP). In the short-run and with perfect credit markets, the size of gains for farms depends on the extent to which investment additionality is enforced. If additionality is not...

This article aims to show the ability of family farms in obtaining funds from rural development policies. Under the hypothesis that family farms' characteristics influence their access to policies, the perspective of analysis is demographic. In the paper two demographic viewpoints are...

Funded “Networking” has steadily gained importance among European Union (EU) rural policies instrumentation: Since 1991, with LEADER the formation of regional public-private partnerships and EU-wide information exchange has been supported. Later also inter-territorial cooperation was funded....

This paper examines the relevance of networking as an instrument for implementing European rural development policies. The LEADER programme of the European Union (EU) supports partnerships and networking within and between rural regions in the EU and aims at advancing rural, regional...

This article aims to show the ability of family farms in obtaining funds from rural development policies. Under the hypothesis that family farms’ characteristics influence their access to policies, the perspective of analysis is demographic. In the paper two demographic viewpoints are...

This paper analyses income distribution effects of investment support granted under the EU Rural Development Policies (RDP). In the short-run and with perfect credit markets, the size of gains for farms depends on the extent to which investment additionality is enforced. If additionality is not...

The main objective of the present study is to estimate the extent to which the RDP investment support has a complementary or a substitutionary effect on farm investments. In order to answer this question, we attempt to quantify the potential deadweight loss by estimating the extent to which the...

Los programas de desarrollo rural del actual periodo de programacion (2007-13) se han estructurado en 4 eyes. El eje 2 correspondiente a la Mejora del medio ambiente y del entorno rural es, con casi la mitad de los recursos publicos, el principal. El objectivo de este articulo es estudiar los...