Structural Funds and the 1992 Program in the European Community

June 1, 1991

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James P. F. Gordon Structural Funds and the 1992 Program in the European Community, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1991) accessed November 12, 2024

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Summary

Equity and efficiency justifications are found for the Community’s Structural Funds which are discovered to be carefully targeted at depressed regions, albeit with some horizontal inequities. If Fund transfers displace national assistance, then they may be misallocated by being tied to regional indicators. The recent doubling in size enhances the Funds’ ability to assist losers from the creation of a single European market in 1992. However, they fall short of constituting a safety net since they provide little automatic assistance to regions suffering negative shocks. Compensation of losers from the 1992 program would require an overhaul of the present allocation system, if not a further increase in scale.

Subject: Expenditure, Labor, National accounts, Personal income, Tax equity, Tax policy, Unemployment, Unemployment rate

Keywords: Country, EC budget, EC region, ERDF assistance, ERDF country range, ERDF grant, ESF commitment, Global, Personal income, Tax equity, Unemployment, Unemployment rate, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

34
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Working Paper No. 1991/065
Stock No:

WPIEA0651991
ISBN:

9781451848601
ISSN:

1018-5941

Notes

Examines the rationale and operations of the Structural Funds of the European Community (EC).

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