The Impact of EU structural funds on regional disparities within member states

• Autores: Andreas P. Kyriacou, Oriol Roca i Sagalés
• Localización: XIX Encuentro de Economía Pública: Políticas Públicas para la salida de la crisis, 2012, ISBN 978-84-695-1574-7, pág. 45
• Idioma: inglés
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  • We examine the impact of the structural and cohesion funds on regional disparities within EU countries over the period 1995-2006. We find that the structural funds have reduced regional disparities over this period. Our empirical estimates also suggest that the effect of the structural funds on regional disparities is potentially reversed above some level of transfer intensity (approximately 1.6% of country GDP).

    This has implications for the desirable allocation of the funds across countries especially since, in the current programming period (2007-2013), all the new member states of the Union bar Cyprus and Malta have a transfer intensity which exceeds this threshold.