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Introduction: reassessing the performance and direction of EU Cohesion Policy in 2014–20
John Bachtler, Peter Berkowitz, Sally Hardy and Tatjana Muravska
PART I
The impact of Cohesion Policy
1 The long-term effectiveness of EU Cohesion Policy: assessing the achievements of the ERDF, 1989–2012
John Bachtler, Iain Begg, David Charles and Laura Polverari
2 Different approaches to the analysis of EU Cohesion Policy: leveraging complementarities for evidence-based policy learning
Riccardo Crescenzi and Mara Giua
3 Cohesion Policy and regional development
Grzegorz Gorzelak
4 Econometric assessments of Cohesion Policy growth effects: how to make them more relevant for policymakers?
Jerzy Pieńkowski and Peter Berkowitz
5 Does Cohesion Policy affect regional growth? New evidence from a semi-parametric approach
Nicola Pontarollo
PART II
The contribution of Cohesion Policy to smart, sustainable and inclusive growth
6 An evaluation of the impact of the construction of motorways and expressways in Poland during the period 2004–13 on accessibility and cohesion
Piotr Rosik, Marcin Stępniak and Tomasz Komornicki
7 Demographic implications of 2007–13 regional and Cohesion Policy actions in Latvia
Aleksandrs Dahs
8 The policy challenge in smart specialisation: a common approach meets European diversity
Henning Kroll
9 Resilience and involvement: the role of the EU’s Structural and Investment Funds in addressing youth unemployment
Elizabeth Sanderson, Peter Wells and Ian Wilson
10 Whatever happened to gender mainstreaming? Lessons for the EU’s 2014–20 Structural and Investment Funds
Leaza Mcsorley and Jim Campbell
11 The absorption of Structural and Investment Funds and youth unemployment: an empirical test
Jale Tosun, Stefan Speckesser, Carsten Jensen and Jacqueline O’reilly
PART III
The administration and delivery of Cohesion Policy
12 Administrative and political embeddedness: how to improve the institutional environments dealing with the management and implementation of EU Structural and Investment Funds? The experience of new member states
Neculai-Cristian Surubaru
13 Corruption in EU Funds? Europe-wide evidence of the corruption effect of EU-funded public contracting
Mihály Fazekas and István János Tóth
14 Efficient implementers and partners: what do we miss in our understanding of how Cohesion Policy administrators work?
Andrey Demidov
15 Funds for the wealthy and the politically loyal? How EU Funds may contribute to increasing regional disparities in East Central Europe
Gergő Medve-Bálint
16 The administrative capacity of the sub-national level in implementing Cohesion Policy in Romania: lessons learnt and future recommendations
Septimiu-Rares Szabo
PART IV
Institutions, territory and place-based policies
17 Territorial capital and EU Cohesion Policy
Ugo Fratesi and Giovanni Perucca
18 What institutional arrangements exist to ensure coherent EU Cohesion Policy planning and implementation?
Liga Baltiņa and Tatjana Muravska
19 Integrated territorial investment: a missed opportunity?
Iván Tosics
20 The place-based approach in development policy: a comparative analysis of Polish and EU space
Jacek Zaucha and Tomasz Komornicki
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