Download or read book EU Cohesion Policy written by John Bachtler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-26 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Open Access version of this book, available at http://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.

Download or read book Cohesion Policy 2007 13 written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of the European Union's cohesion policy is to reduce the development gaps among the different regions and strengthen economic and social cohesion.

Download or read book Cohesion Policy written by European Commission. Directorate-General for Regional Policy and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book EU Cohesion Policy and European Integration written by John Bachtler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EU Cohesion policy accounts for a major share of the EU budget and is central to economic and social development in many European countries. This book provides a comprehensive and theoretically-informed analysis of how Cohesion policy has evolved over time, in particular the budgetary and policy dynamics of the 2007-13 reform. In the context of the budgetary politics of the EU, the book examines the process by which the reform of Cohesion policy has been shaped; it identifies the key factors that explain the allocation of funding, assesses the roles of the Member States, European Commission and European Parliament, and tests whether the process and outcome are consistent with the expectations of EU decision-making and integration theories. Based on extensive, EU-wide research over a ten-year period, the book provides new insights into both the process and outcomes of EU policy reform. Presenting original research in an accessible format, this book will be of interest to scholars as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of European integration and policy studies.

Download or read book Delivery System written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the Final Report of Work Package (WP) 12 (Cohesion Policy Delivery System) of the suite of ex post evaluations of Cohesion Policy programmes 2007-2013, financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the European Social Fund (ESF) and the Cohesion Fund (CF). The purpose of this evaluation was to provide an assessment of the performance of the 2007-13 Cohesion Policy delivery system. In this context, "delivery system" is understood as the combination of legal requirements and procedures that support the effective and efficient investment of European Union resources, and of the outlining of roles and responsibilities in planning, management and implementation of the policy at each level of government. Many legal requirements and procedures of the delivery system in the 2007-13 period were quite similar for all programmes, i.e., they did not differ greatly irrespective of the amount of funding, quality of governance or socioeconomic development level. As specified by the Tender Specifications (p. 11), the evaluation aimed to "analyse the effectiveness and efficiency of the delivery system and identify the main success factors that support the accountable implementation of a policy that is legal and regular, which delivers results in a timely and responsive manner at reasonable costs to national administrations and beneficiaries." The evaluation covered the Cohesion Policy delivery system in all 28 Member States, it collected and analysed evidence on stakeholder expectations and on their judgment of performance of the delivery system against these expectations, on strengths and weaknesses and factors driving successes and failures. This wide coverage was important in order to capture differences in the implementation of programmes across Member States and regions with varying socio-economic contexts, public administration systems, administrative capacities and quality of governance. These variations are vital because the Cohesion Policy delivery system essentially works through and relies largely on the pre-existing, heterogeneous national and regional public administrations of Member States. This evaluation involved the analysis of a wide variety of information gathered from a combination of web based surveys, case studies, focus groups and interviews, and covered approximately 3,700 representatives from national and regional institutions, beneficiaries and the European Commission. This primary research was complemented by existing secondary data (e.g., expenditure data, data on error rates, data on the type of evaluations carried out, etc.) and a review of existing literature.

Download or read book Ex Post Evaluation of Cohesion Policy Programmes 2007 2013 Focusing on the European Regional Development Fund ERDF and the Cohesion Fund CF written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book European Cohesion Policy written by Willem Molle and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2007 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrating both theoretical and practical research in a clear and accessible structure, covering economic, social and territorial issues, 'European Cohesion Policy' provides a systematic view of the various stages of the whole policy cycle.

Download or read book Ex Post Evaluation of Cohesion Policy Programmes 2007 2013 Focusing on the European Regional Development Fund ERDF and the Cohesion Fund CF written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report synthesises the results of the ex post evaluation of the Cohesion policy programmes financed from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Cohesion Fund. The central aim of the evaluation was to answer three main questions: - How was the funding provided spent in regions across the EU?  What were the results and how far did they contribute to Cohesion policy goals? - What are the lessons for the future design and conduct of Cohesion policy? This summary, firstly, sets out the objectives of the policy over the period and the context in which it was implemented. Secondly, it indicates the scale of funding and its division between different parts of the EU and policy areas. Thirdly, it outlines the approach adopted to the evaluation. Fourthly, it assesses the extent to which policy achieved its objectives. Fifthly, it draws out the lessons to be learned and their implications for future policy.

Download or read book The Control System for Cohesion Policy written by European Commission. Directorate-General for Regional Policy and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ex Post Evaluation of Cohesion Policy Programmes 2007 2013 Focusing on the European Regional Development Fund ERDF and the Cohesion Fund CF written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Macro economic Effects of Cohesion Policy Funding in 2007 2013 written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This final report focuses on evaluating the impact of the EU Funds (EUF, sum of structural and cohesion funds) on regional growth in terms of GDP, employment rate and gross fixed capital formation. The analysis is implemented with a counterfactual impact evaluation approach developed through two methodological instruments: the Propensity score matching (PSM), with multiple categorical treatment-status variables, and the Generalised Propensity Score (GPS) matching. The estimation sample covers the EU-27 Nuts-2 regions across the programming periods 1994-99, 2000-06 and 2007-13. The results of the analysis show that the EUF have a significant role in stimulating regional growth and economic development, with higher average intensities of the EUF in the Ob. 1/Convergence regions that generate a positive effect on regional growth, compared to the counterfactual status of receiving the lower average EUF intensity of the non-Ob. 1/non-Convergence regions. The results also indicate that the marginal impact on regional growth of further increasing the intensity of the EUF tends to be somehow higher, on average, for the regions that do not already receive an high intensity of the EUF. Such last finding, however, is not fully conclusive due to some important data limitations that do not allow the analysis to estimate the exact conditions under which the different intensities of the EUF produce desirable regional growth outcomes.

Download or read book Ex Post Evaluation of Cohesion Policy Programmes 2007 2013 Focusing on the European Regional Development Fund ERDF and the Cohesion Fund CF written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report synthesises the results of the ex post evaluation of the Cohesion policy programmes financed from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Cohesion Fund. The central aim of the evaluation was to answer three main questions: - How was the funding provided spent in regions across the EU? - What were the results and how far did they contribute to Cohesion policy goals? - What are the lessons for the future design and conduct of Cohesion policy? This summary, firstly, sets out the objectives of the policy over the period and the context in which it was implemented. Secondly, it indicates the scale of funding and its division between different parts of the EU and policy areas. Thirdly, it outlines the approach adopted to the evaluation. Fourthly, it assesses the extent to which policy achieved its objectives. Fifthly, it draws out the lessons to be learned and their implications for future policy.

Download or read book EU Cohesion Policy 2007 13 the Implications for Spain written by Douglas Yuill and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ex Post Evaluation of Cohesion Policy Programmes 2007 2013 Focusing on the European Regional Development Fund ERDF and the Cohesion Fund CF written by John Finnegan and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ex Post Evaluation of Cohesion Policy Programmes 2007 2013 Focusing on the European Regional Development Fund ERDF and the Cohesion Fund CF written by John Finnegan and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This evaluation study forms part of the ex-post evaluation of the 2007-2013 programming period of EU cohesion policy. The main objectives and requirements of this evaluation were to: Identify the main achievements of cohesion policy in all areas of transport related infrastructure; Analyse to what extent the EU support contributed to the creation of comprehensive transport networks; and identify the strengths and weaknesses of cohesion policy intervention in transport and explore directions this policy should take in the future. The work carried out for this study and the detailed results obtained are set out in two Interim Reports. Based on that work, this Final Report: Summarises the contribution of cohesion policy to transport in the EU; Sets out the strengths and weaknesses of cohesion policy in the area of transport; Presents the results of the examination of the financial analysis of transport projects carried out by Member States; Presents the catalogue of challenges that has been prepared based on the results of this study; and, Sets out the overall conclusions of the evaluation.

Download or read book Funds and Games written by Sjef Ederveen and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cohesion Policy in the European Union written by Dan Marek and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new text introduces the history, evolution and contemporary state of one of the European Union's most important, expensive and controversial policies. It examines the role that cohesion policy plays in European integration, as well as in economic development across regions, and analyzes the key debates and issues at stake.