Regional disparities, absorption capacity and Structural Fund payments: A case study of the Czech Republic
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2017-12
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Wydział Nauk Geograficznych i Geologicznych Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza
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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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regional disparities, convergence, absorption capacity, Structural Funds, Czech Republic
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Quaestiones Geographicae vol. 36 (4), 2017, pp. 82-92
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0137-477X