Results 131 to 140 of about 12,465 (166)

Structural funds of the EU

2002
By following the experiences of the EU, Croatia is trying to moderate differences in the development of its regions and to reduce the unemployment rate through its Fund for the Regional Development, and Fund for Development and Employment. European regions are not equally developed.
Bezić, Heri, Andrijanić, Ivo, Kandžija, Vinko   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

EU cohesion policy: the debate on Structural Funds

International Journal of Public Policy, 2008
After 15 years of EU cohesion policy, implemented through National Development Plans (NDPs) and Structural Funds (SFs), economists remain divided on interpretations of policy effectiveness. As new member states prepare for the next programme of EU cohesion aid, it is important to review this debate.
openaire   +1 more source

FDI Inflows in the EU-15 and the Role of Structural Funds

International Advances in Economic Research, 2009
During the last three decades there has been an impressive increase in global FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) flows. Almost half of the flows towards developed countries have been directed towards EU-15 countries. Since the empirical investigation has confirmed the positive impact of these inflows on growth and development, economic research has ...
Odysseas Katsaitis, Dimitrios Doulos
openaire   +1 more source

EU Structural Funds in Slovakia

2009
The goal of the thesis is to analyse the reasons for the low level of drawing of the EU structural funds in Slovakia and provide closer insight onto possibilities for change. Furthermore, it aims to examine structure of resource implementation in Slovakia from the perspective of operational programmes, amount of the funds allocated and objectives of ...
openaire   +1 more source

Regional development, Absorption problems and the EU Structural Funds [PDF]

, 2004
Based on the review of literature and our own conceptual considerations, we show that absorption problems regarding the EU Structural Funds may be important. Our brief covering of some general macroeconomic aspects of absorption problems brings us closer to the central topic of our paper, namely, the question of how to measure the administrative ...
Andrej Horvat, Gunther Maier
openaire   +1 more source

EU Structural Funds in the Baltic Countries Useful or Harmful?

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016
The current article is focused on the role of financial assistance from the European Union in the budgets of the three Baltic countries. They all have seriously benefitted from the support of EU structural funds, which have reached close to five per cent of their GDP.
openaire   +1 more source

Reforming the structural funds: Challenges for EU regional policy

European Planning Studies, 1998
Abstract The reform of the Structural Funds is intended to improve the efficiency of EU regional policy and accommodate the costs of EU enlargement through concentration of spending, simplification of bureaucracy and decentralisation of administration.
openaire   +1 more source

The structural funds and EU cohesion policy

2018
Hubert Heinelt, Wolfgang Petzold
openaire   +1 more source

From EU Structural Funds to Levelling Up: Empty signifiers, ungrounded statism and English regional policy

Local Economy, 2022
Paul Copeland, Diamond, Patrick
exaly  

EU structural and investment funds and disability

2020
openaire   +1 more source