The regional impact of Community policies

Bernhard Seidel

Chapter 13 in Improving Economic and Social Cohesion in the European Community, 1994, pp 211-228 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Social cohesion, that is the harmonisation of working and living conditions, has been a firmly-rooted aim of the European Community since the passing of the Single European Act. Clearly this represents an ambitious target if one bears in mind the stark differences in economic performance of the member states and their various regions. In the poorest regions economic output per head of population amounts to only one-ninth of that in the richest. Economic weaknesses and unfavourable local conditions often go hand in hand, so that geographical remoteness, a poor communications network, inadequate infrastructure and shortages of skills significantly hinder the catching-up process, even if the difference in labour costs offers incentives to move production away from the central regions of the EC.

Keywords: Social Cohesion; Regional Impact; Regional Disparity; Poor Region; Structural Fund (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1994
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-23438-7_13

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