Infrastructure investment opportunities in the New EU Member States: the role of regional policies

Silvia Vignetti and Emanuela Sirtori

Working Papers from CSIL Centre for Industrial Studies

Abstract: Infrastructure development is a priority on policy agendas in the EU and worldwide, because of the very high investment needs in basic infrastructure, especially in lagging behind regions and countries. The paper provides a descriptive analysis of the infrastructural gaps in EU transition economies at national and, as far as possible, regional level for some infrastructure sectors: transport, telecommunication, environment and energy. The analysis suggests that, on average, internal divergences in the infrastructures’ endowment are present between the urbanised capital cities regions and the peripheral and rural areas, in all the Member States; yet, the density and quality of such endowment is significantly higher in the Western countries and limited in the Eastern ones.

Keywords: Infrastructure; regional policy; EU new member states (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H54 O18 R11 R58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 15 pages
Date: 2010-03-15
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-geo, nep-tra and nep-ure
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