DOPADY PROGRAMOVÉHO OBDOBÍ 2007-2013 REGIONÁLNÍ POLITIKY EU NA ROZVOJ ČESKÝCH MIKROREGIONŮ
THE IMPACTS OF THE 2007-2013 PROGRAMMING PERIOD OF EU REGIONAL POLICY ON DEVELOPMENT OF CZECH MICRO-REGIONS

Author(s): Pavel Zdražil, Petra APPLOVÁ
Subject(s): Regional Geography, Economic history, Economic policy, Economic development, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Present Times (2010 - today)
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: disparities; EU regional policy; economic environment; micro-regions;
Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to evaluate the impacts of the 2007-2013 programming period of EU regional policy on development of economic environment in micro-regions of the Czech Republic. The analysis is based on statistical methods - non-parametric correlation analysis and Ward's method of hierarchical cluster analysis. It examines the relationships between the resources allocated by EU regional policy and changes of the economic environment indicators - unemployment and number of business units, in terms of all micro-regions, as well as subgroups. The results have shown variegated impacts of EU regional policy on development of economic environment in the Czech micro-regions. On the one hand, the general conclusion is that public funds do not crowd-out private resources but complement them, which is positive. On the other hand, any unambiguously positive effects of EU regional policy on development indicators of the economic environment have not been proved.

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