What Do Public Policies Teach us About Rural Depopulation: The Case Study of Spain

Vicente Pinilla and Sáez Luis Antonio ()
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Sáez Luis Antonio: Associated Professor Luis Antonio Sáez Pérez, Universidad de Zaragoza, Faculty of Economics and Business Studies, Zaragoza, Spain

European Countryside, 2021, vol. 13, issue 2, 330-351

Abstract: This study evaluates the policies developed in Spain to address depopulation and explains the reasons for their low effectiveness. We consider that the low impact of these policies is due to an incorrect diagnosis and design in terms of their content and governance. Therefore, we propose that depopulation policies should have the objective of enabling citizens to reside where they wish and obtain the best possible quality of life. These policies should be implemented within a new governance framework in which the foundations on which they are based and the way in which they are implemented are renewed. With the support of the European Union, such action could be carried out more efficiently and could constitute a reference of successful territorial cohesion contributing to erasing the populist opinion in places that believe that they do not matter.

Keywords: Depopulation; Sparsely Populated Areas; Rural development policy; Spain (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.2478/euco-2021-0021

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