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来源

EUROPEAN PLANNING STUDIES,Vol.26,Issue6,P.1121-1136

语言

英文

关键字

Regional development; EU support; impact assessment; sub-region; COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY; PROPENSITY SCORE

作者单位

[Bakucs, Zoltan; Ferto, Imre; Benedek, Zsofia] Hungarian Acad Sci, Inst Econ, Ctr Econ & Reg Studies, Toth Kalman U 4, H-1097 Budapest, Hungary. [Bakucs, Zoltan] Corvinus Univ Budapest, Budapest, Hungary. [Ferto, Imre] Kaposvar Univ, Kaposvar, Hungary. [Varga, Agnes] Corvinus Univ Budapest, Inst Geog Geoecon & Sustainable Dev, Budapest, Hungary. Bakucs, Z (reprint author), Hungarian Acad Sci, Inst Econ, Ctr Econ & Reg Studies, Toth Kalman U 4, H-1097 Budapest, Hungary. E-Mail: zoltan.bakucs@krtk.mta.hu

摘要

Since the collapse of the communist system, regional inequalities have increased in Central European Countries. This paper describes an assessment of the impacts of regional development programmes on the development of Hungarian regions at a highly disaggregated level between 2002 and 2008. We construct a multi-dimensional composite indicator to estimate the overall development of rural regions and capture social, economic and environmental dimensions. The impacts of rural development programmes were investigated through counterfactual analysis in combination with Propensity Score Matching and Difference-in-Differences approaches. There has been considerable variation with increasing concentration in the level of subsidies distributed during the analysed period. From a policy perspective, the results are disappointing. Irrespective of the subsidy measures or methodology employed, the impact of the former is very close to zero or non-significant. Our findings cast serious doubt on the effectiveness of development policy and the long-run convergence of European regions.