Regional disparities, absorption capacity and Structural Fund payments: A case study of the Czech Republic
The intention of this paper is to provide empirical evidence on how the factors of socio-economic disadvantage and absorption capacity influence the spatial distribution of Structural Fund (SF) payments among the Czech Republic’s micro-regions during the 2007–2013 programming period. The empirical r...
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| description | The intention of this paper is to provide empirical evidence on how the factors of socio-economic disadvantage and absorption capacity influence the spatial distribution of Structural Fund (SF) payments among the Czech Republic’s micro-regions during the 2007–2013 programming period. The empirical results indicate that agglomeration economies, innovation and entrepreneurship are associated with higher SF absorption capacity and higher SF payments, challenging the tendency for socio-economically disadvantaged regions to converge. SF absorption capacity measured especially by the number of project applications submitted for SF financing and by the average SF budget per project application, is a crucial concept in order to understand the relationship between within-country regional disparities and SF interventions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-90b985ab83324253bdc25f98892777b72022-12-21T18:38:00ZengSciendoQuaestiones Geographicae2081-63832017-12-01364819210.1515/quageo-2017-0037quageo-2017-0037Regional disparities, absorption capacity and Structural Fund payments: A case study of the Czech RepublicNovosák Jiří0Novosáková Jana1Hájek Oldřich2Horváth Peter3Department of Regional Development, Public Sector Administration and Law, Faculty of Management and Economics, Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Czech RepublicDepartment of Regional Development, Public Sector Administration and Law, Faculty of Management and Economics, Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Czech RepublicDepartment of Regional Development, Public Sector Administration and Law, Faculty of Management and Economics, Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Czech RepublicDepartment of Public Policy and Public Administration, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of St. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava, SlovakiaThe intention of this paper is to provide empirical evidence on how the factors of socio-economic disadvantage and absorption capacity influence the spatial distribution of Structural Fund (SF) payments among the Czech Republic’s micro-regions during the 2007–2013 programming period. The empirical results indicate that agglomeration economies, innovation and entrepreneurship are associated with higher SF absorption capacity and higher SF payments, challenging the tendency for socio-economically disadvantaged regions to converge. SF absorption capacity measured especially by the number of project applications submitted for SF financing and by the average SF budget per project application, is a crucial concept in order to understand the relationship between within-country regional disparities and SF interventions.https://doi.org/10.1515/quageo-2017-0037regional disparitiesconvergenceabsorption capacitystructural fundsczech republic |
| spellingShingle | Novosák Jiří Novosáková Jana Hájek Oldřich Horváth Peter Regional disparities, absorption capacity and Structural Fund payments: A case study of the Czech Republic Quaestiones Geographicae regional disparities convergence absorption capacity structural funds czech republic |
| title | Regional disparities, absorption capacity and Structural Fund payments: A case study of the Czech Republic |
| title_full | Regional disparities, absorption capacity and Structural Fund payments: A case study of the Czech Republic |
| title_fullStr | Regional disparities, absorption capacity and Structural Fund payments: A case study of the Czech Republic |
| title_full_unstemmed | Regional disparities, absorption capacity and Structural Fund payments: A case study of the Czech Republic |
| title_short | Regional disparities, absorption capacity and Structural Fund payments: A case study of the Czech Republic |
| title_sort | regional disparities absorption capacity and structural fund payments a case study of the czech republic |
| topic | regional disparities convergence absorption capacity structural funds czech republic |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1515/quageo-2017-0037 |
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