Effectiveness of interventions co-fi nanced by the EU structural funds in Wielkopolska in the years 2004-2006
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2010
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Wydział Nauk Geograficznych i Geologicznych Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza
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The aim of this article is to analyse the effectiveness of interventions from the EU Structural Funds
in Wielkopolska carried out for investments realised in the years 2004-2006, i.e. in the fi rst period of implementing
Community regional policy in Poland. The research procedure is composed of two fundamental stages. In
the fi rst, projects co-fi nanced from the EU Structural Funds within the framework of the Regional Component
of the Integrated Regional Operational Programme were systematised by the criterion of intervention direction
within each of the three dimensions of cohesion: economic, social and territorial. In the second stage, selected diagnostic
measures for each dimension of cohesion were subjected to effectiveness analysis. The procedure rested
on a questions/methods-oriented model applied in line with the theory-driven evaluation approach, a quasiexperimental
design and the difference-in-differences technique, as well as methods of econometric analysis.
The results made it possible to assess public intervention in Poland in terms of its effectiveness, and to identify
challenges that have to be faced very soon.
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evaluation of effectiveness, cohesion, Structural Funds
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Quaestiones Geographicae vol. 29 (2), 2010, pp.85-102
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978-83-62662-62-3
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0137-477X