Regional Policy In The Eu Less Favoured Regions For The Period 2000-2006An Assessment Of The Expenditure Allocation And Governance

  1. Margarita ARGUELLES 1
  2. Carmen BENAVIDES 1
  3. Matias MAYOR 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Oviedo
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    Universidad de Oviedo

    Oviedo, España

    ROR https://ror.org/006gksa02

Revue:
Estudios Economicos Regionales y Sectoriales : EERS: Regional and sectoral economic studies : RSES

ISSN: 1578-4460

Année de publication: 2011

Volumen: 11

Número: 1

Pages: 63-80

Type: Article

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D'autres publications dans: Estudios Economicos Regionales y Sectoriales : EERS: Regional and sectoral economic studies : RSES

Résumé

The European Union regional policy is targeting to strength internal cohesion, seeking to improve the performance of the whole territory but with special emphasis on the less favored regions. In this paper we analyze the effectiveness of the Structural Funds in Objective 1 regions during the programming period, 2000-2006. Firstly, the EU expenditure is divided into seven categories, with the aim to identify which of them show a positive and real contribution to growth. Secondly, we test the existence of a national influence on the regional capability to take advantage from Structural Funds. Finally, we show how this country effect is related to the quality of governance of each country.

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