How to Avoid the ‘Mezzogiorno Syndrome’: The Golden Burden of EU Funds in the Romanian Regions

Sorin Ioniţă

Chapter 9 in Regional Diversity and Local Development in the New Member States, 2009, pp 253-271 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Travelling across Europe, one is sometimes left with the impression that the discrepancies in the level of development, still noticeable to the naked eye in spite of the decades of Cohesion Policy, are harder to explain with econometric or spatial models than by watching the Italian neorealist movies of the 1940–50s. If true, this is the best illustration of the notion of path dependency: a vicious circle in which past underdevelopment creates conditions for its own perpetuation. In countries like Italy, this is known as the ‘Mezzogiorno problem’, but if we move one level up, the question can be rephrased: how many Mezzogiornos does the EU have?

Keywords: Regional Disparity; Cohesion Policy; Tight Labour Market; Romanian Region; Romanian Government (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230247017_10

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