Title Details: | |
European Cohesion Policy and Greece (1981-2021) |
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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.
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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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