THE QUALITY OF PLANNING, A BAROMETER OF THE EFFECTIVE USE OF STRUCTURAL FUNDS IN ROMANIA ? STUDY CASE: REGION FOR DEVELOPMENT ?CENTRU? 2007-2013

 
Autor (i): Catană, Aida
 
JEL: H7, P4, R5
 
Cuvinte cheie: regional development, Structural Funds, local communities
 
Abstract:
 The enlargement of the European Union has generated a series of debates on the structural funds to the most appropriate level of government. The resulting planning documents were unable to be the basis for an essential contribution of the structural funds to reduce disparities, the ultimate goal of the regional development policy. The quality of the planning documents at regional and local level is given by several factors such as: the existence of an unclear and insufficient legal framework, the modality in which there was perceived and used the partnership or the involvement of all stakeholders in the preparation of the planning documents or the extent to which certain methods or development tools in support areas such as statistics, are used. Therefore, the quality assessment for the planning documents could be a barometer for estimating what will be generated by using structural funds.   
 
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