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Title Details:
European Cohesion Policy and Greece (1981-2021)
Other Titles: Political and Economic Consequences
Authors: Liargovas, Panagiotis
Papazoglou, Emmanuel
Chouliaras, Asterios
Subject: ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY > TECHNOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING > REGIONAL AND URBAN PLANNING > REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > ECONOMIC SCIENCES > MICROECONOMICS
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > ECONOMIC SCIENCES > MACROECONOMICS AND MONETARY ECONOMICS > MACROECONOMIC POLICY, MACROECONOMIC ASPECTS OF PUBLIC FINANCE, AND GENERAL OUTLOOK
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > ECONOMIC SCIENCES > INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS > INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > ECONOMIC SCIENCES > ECONOMIC SYSTEMS > SOCIALIST SYSTEMS AND TRANSITIONAL ECONOMIES > URBAN, RURAL, AND REGIONAL ECONOMICS
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > POLITICAL SCIENCES > HIERARCHIES, STATE, DISTRIBUTION OF POWER > PUBLIC POLICY
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > POLITICAL SCIENCES > FIELDS OF POLICY > MACROECONOMIC POLICY
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > POLITICAL SCIENCES > FOREIGN POLICY > FOREIGN POLICY > EUROPEAN POLICY
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > ECONOMIC SCIENCES > ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE, AND GROWTH
Keywords:
Cohesion
Convergence
Regional Policy
Structural Funds
Development Foreign Aid
Greece
Description:
Abstract:
EU-funded studies on the impact of the Structural Funds often evaluate specific investment projects or programmes, while academic research focuses on the long-term effects, usually by measuring their impact on economic growth. However, in the end many questions still remain unanswered. Undoubtedly, in relatively well-documented analyses of the impact of the Structural Funds on growth, the impact is very positive on social and institutional capital: through programming, partnership, monitoring, evaluation, control and requirements or through specific programmes, the Structural Funds contribute to improving efficiency in the Greek public administration. However, there are unexplored negative externalities. This book fills this gap. Adopting the political economy approach to the impact of aid, it shows that the Structural Funds can be seen as externalities rather than the net result of productive activity within the country. A constant flow of 'easy money' is often a perfect way to maintain an inefficient or simply poor governance structure. Regional authorities relying almost exclusively on these external inflows for infrastructure projects have no incentive to seek better ways to increase funding for development projects. As foreign aid, the Structural Funds may end up supporting bloated bureaucracies, paternalistic structures and patronage networks. Finally, the Structural Funds have a serious impact on the motivation of workers.
Linguistic Editors: Giamarellos, Christos
Graphic Editors: Moustani, Evangelia
Type: Undergraduate textbook
Creation Date: 02-11-2023
Item Details:
ISBN 978-618-228-133-8
License: Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-369
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/11274
Bibliographic Reference: Liargovas, P., Papazoglou, E., & Chouliaras, A. (2023). European Cohesion Policy and Greece (1981-2021) [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-369
Language: Greek
Consists of:
1. Introduction
2. A Brief History: from the Mediterranean Integrated Programmes to the NSRF
3. The evolution of financial management at national level
4. The political implications I: European integration helping to balance the political system
5. The political implications II: Incentives and governance
6. Evaluations I: The macroeconomic level (GDP, convergence)
7. Evaluations II: The microeconomic level (projects and programmes)
8. The impact on the private sector - SMEs
9. Consultancy firms and non-governmental organizations
10. The Common Agricultural Policy and its impact on the agricultural sector
11. The new programming period and the Recovery Fund: Learning from the past
Number of pages 252
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions
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