Improving Economic and Social Cohesion in the European Community

This book gives a clear insight into the EC's efforts to reduce regional inequalities in Europe, assessing the effectiveness of key EC policies such as the structural funds. It also analyses regional income disparities within the EC, the effects of economic integration on Europe's poorer areas and the strategic options of the less-developed regions and countries in Europe. The effects of the Single Market, the Common Agricultural Policy and Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) on poorer EC areas are also evaluated.

Inhalt
Introduction; J.Mortensen - Opening Address; H.Christophersen - European Economic Integration: Conceptual Issues and Social Reality; W.Molle - PART 1: EXPLAINING REGIONAL AND SOCIAL INEQUALITIES - The Regions of the European Community in 1992; R.Hall - Unemployment in the EC: Nature and Causes; J.Morley - The EC and the USA: Regional Differentials Compared; A.Boltho - PART 2: THE VIEW FROM THE PERIPHERY - Catching Up with the Rest: the Irish Experience; K.Kennedy - Spain in the EC: Monetary Stability Versus Economic Growth?; J.Folgado - EMU: a Challenge or a Helping Hand for Greece?; N.Christodoulakis - EMU and the Future of the North-South Divide; A.Cabral - PART 3: THE IMPACT OF THE CENTRE - The Efficiency of the Structural Funds; P.Goybet & M.Bertoldi - The Regional Impact of Community Policies; B.Seidel - Fiscal Federalism: a Survey; B.Spahn - The Implications of Cohesion Policy for the EC Budget; H.Retchenbach - The Regional-Stabilisation Properties of Fiscal Arrangements; A.Italianer & J.Pisani-Ferry - The Role of the European Investment Bank; E.Greppi - Index