TY - GEN AU - Bachtler,John AU - Berkowitz,Peter AU - Hardy,Sally AU - Muravska,Tatjana AU - Bachtler,John AU - Berkowitz,Peter AU - Hardy,Sally AU - Muravska,Tatjana TI - EU Cohesion Policy SN - 9781315401867 PY - 2017/// PB - Taylor & Francis KW - Economics KW - bicssc KW - Development economics & emerging economies KW - Business & management KW - Research & development management KW - EU KW - Cohesion KW - Policy KW - Regional Studies Association KW - RSA KW - Development KW - Policy Makers KW - Growth KW - Poland KW - Latvia KW - Diversity KW - Smart Specialisation KW - Unemployment KW - Iain Begg KW - David Charles KW - Laura Polverari KW - Riccardo Crescenzi KW - Mara Giua KW - Grzegorz Gorzelak KW - Jerzy Pieńkowski KW - Peter Berkowitz KW - Nicola Pontarollo KW - Piotr Rosik KW - Marcin Stępniak KW - Tomasz Komornicki KW - Aleksandrs Dahs KW - Henning Kroll KW - Elizabeth Sanderson KW - Peter Wells KW - Ian Wilson KW - Leaza McSorley KW - Jim Campbell KW - Jale Tosun KW - Stefan Speckesser KW - Carsten Jensen KW - Jacqueline O'Reilly KW - Neculai-Cristian Surubaru KW - Mih Fazekas KW - IstvJs Tth KW - Andrey Demidov KW - Gergő Medve-Bnt KW - Septimiu-Rares Szabo KW - Ugo Fratesi KW - Giovanni Perucca KW - Liga Baltiņa KW - Tatjana Muravska KW - IvTosics KW - Jacek Zaucha N1 - Open Access N2 - The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315401867, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. This book brings together academics, members of European institutions, and regional and national level policymakers in order to assess the performance and direction of EU Cohesion policy against the background of the most significant reforms to the policy in a generation. Responding to past criticisms of the effectiveness of the policy, the policy changes introduced in 2013 have aligned European Structural and Investment Funds with the Europe 2020 strategy and introduced measures to improve strategic coherence, performance and integrated development. EU Cohesion Policy: Reassessing performance and direction argues that policy can only be successfully developed and implemented if there is input from both academics and practitioners. The chapters in the book address four important issues: the effectiveness and impact of Cohesion policy at European, national and regional levels; the contribution of Cohesion policy to the Europe 2020 strategy of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth; the importance of quality of government and administrative capacity for the effective management of the Funds; and the inter-relationships between institutions, territory and place-based policies. The volume will be an invaluable resource to students, academics and policymakers across economics, regional studies, European studies and international relations UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/24255/1/1005876.pdf UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/24255/1/1005876.pdf UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/24255/1/1005876.pdf UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/25893 ER -