THE EUROPEAN UNION COHESION POLICY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF POLAND

Tomasz Dorozynski ()
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Tomasz Dorozynski: University of Lodz, Poland

Equilibrium. Quarterly Journal of Economics and Economic Policy, 2012, vol. 7, issue 4, 31-48

Abstract: In order to remove regional economic disparities, the EU realizes the cohesion policy. The evaluation of the cohesion policy from the point of view of experiences of individual member states and the EU is not explicit. What is especially controversial here, are unsuccessful attempts to reach the main goal, which is social, economic and territorial cohesion. It does not mean the negation of outcomes of numerous researches which confirm a positive influence of the cohesion policy on the economic growth. The subject for a discussion is the right balance between the equality and effectiveness. The key issue is an answer to the question who and how to support. The question is whether the aid should be directed at the areas which guarantee the highest added value? Should it be the priority to give equal opportunity to the poorest and to support them? At present the cohesion policy is trying to combine both those goals. However, with the limited measures and rising social, economic and territorial disparities, those actions are ineffective. The pace of economic growth in Poland in the recent years – bigger than the average in the EU – has contributed to the making up for part of a development distance towards the rest of the member states. The cohesion policy had some participation in this process. The evaluation of the influence of the cohesion policy is not easy, though. One has to, however, separate its influence from other factors affecting the social-economic situation of the regions.

Keywords: EU cohesion policy; economic development; economic regional disparities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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