ABSTRACT

The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315401867, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.

This book brings together academics, members of European institutions, and regional and national level policymakers in order to assess the performance and direction of EU Cohesion policy against the background of the most significant reforms to the policy in a generation. Responding to past criticisms of the effectiveness of the policy, the policy changes introduced in 2013 have aligned European Structural and Investment Funds with the Europe 2020 strategy and introduced measures to improve strategic coherence, performance and integrated development.

EU Cohesion Policy: Reassessing performance and direction argues that policy can only be successfully developed and implemented if there is input from both academics and practitioners. The chapters in the book address four important issues: the effectiveness and impact of Cohesion policy at European, national and regional levels; the contribution of Cohesion policy to the Europe 2020 strategy of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth; the importance of quality of government and administrative capacity for the effective management of the Funds; and the inter-relationships between institutions, territory and place-based policies.

The volume will be an invaluable resource to students, academics and policymakers across economics, regional studies, European studies and international relations.

 

chapter |8 pages

Introduction

Reassessing the performance and direction of EU Cohesion Policy in 2014–20
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part I|75 pages

The impact of Cohesion Policy

chapter 1|10 pages

The long-term effectiveness of EU Cohesion Policy

Assessing the achievements of the ERDF, 1989–2012
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chapter 2|12 pages

Different approaches to the analysis of EU Cohesion Policy

Leveraging complementarities for evidence-based policy learning
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chapter 4|14 pages

Econometric assessments of Cohesion Policy growth effects

How to make them more relevant for policymakers?
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chapter 5|15 pages

Does Cohesion Policy affect regional growth?

New evidence from a semi-parametric approach
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part II|84 pages

The contribution of Cohesion Policy to smart, sustainable and inclusive growth

chapter 8|12 pages

The policy challenge in smart specialisation

A common approach meets European diversity
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chapter 9|13 pages

Resilience and involvement

The role of the EU’s Structural and Investment Funds in addressing youth unemployment
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chapter 10|11 pages

Whatever happened to gender mainstreaming?

Lessons for the EU’s 2014–20 Structural and Investment Funds
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part III|83 pages

The administration and delivery of Cohesion Policy

chapter 12|15 pages

Administrative and political embeddedness

How to improve the institutional environments dealing with the management and implementation of EU Structural and Investment Funds? The experience of new member states 1
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chapter 13|20 pages

Corruption in EU Funds?

Europe-wide evidence of the corruption effect of EU-funded public contracting
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chapter 14|14 pages

Efficient implementers and partners

What do we miss in our understanding of how Cohesion Policy administrators work?
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chapter 15|21 pages

Funds for the wealthy and the politically loyal?

How EU Funds may contribute to increasing regional disparities in East Central Europe
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part IV|58 pages

Institutions, territory and place-based policies

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chapter 19|13 pages

Integrated territorial investment

A missed opportunity?
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chapter 20|14 pages

The place-based approach in development policy

A comparative analysis of Polish and EU 1 space
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