The structural funds management in third-Central and Eastern European

Duduiala-Popescu, Lorena (2009): The structural funds management in third-Central and Eastern European.

Abstract

Based on reviewing the literature in the field, the article shows the importance accorded to issues of structural funds absorption. The subject is central to assessing how the administrative capacity to absorb EU candidate countries in terms of structural funds. It will describe the methodology on absorption capacity of the countries of central and eastern Europe. This article provides preliminary expressions of capacity to absorb in a given Member State and bring additional information on the capacity of all states in the programming period 2006-2013. Thus, the work is an ex-ante evaluation of administrative capacity to absorb very useful for the next programming period.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: structural funds, member states, cohesion policy, coordination
• Subjects: F - International Economics > F5 - International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy > F59 - Other; F - International Economics > F4 - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance > F42 - International Policy Coordination and Transmission; F - International Economics > F1 - Trade > F15 - Economic Integration; G - Financial Economics > G3 - Corporate Finance and Governance > G38 - Government Policy and Regulation; G - Financial Economics > G1 - General Financial Markets > G18 - Government Policy and Regulation; F - International Economics > F0 - General > F02 - International Economic Order and Integration; F - International Economics > F2 - International Factor Movements and International Business > F21 - International Investment ; Long-Term Capital Movements; H - Public Economics > H7 - State and Local Government ; Intergovernmental Relations > H76 - State and Local Government: Other Expenditure Categories; G - Financial Economics > G2 - Financial Institutions and Services > G28 - Government Policy and Regulation; I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I2 - Education and Research Institutions > I28 - Government Policy

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