Problem areas in Poland in terms of the objectives of the European Union's regional policy

Churski, Paweł

doi:10.1080/0965431042000312406

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“…These regions were chosen for two reasons. First, they exhibit a dynamic economic development and a relatively good knowledge base (Gorzelak, 2003;Stryjakiewicz, 2002;Churski, 2005;Chojnicki & Czyz, 2006), i.e. have the absorptive capacity to integrate different types of new knowledge from abroad.…”

Section: The Case Of Poland: Context Hypotheses and Methodologymentioning

confidence: 99%

High-skilled Return Migration and Knowledge-based Development in Poland

Klagge

Klein-Hitpaß

2010

European Planning Studies

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It is by now well known that return migration of the highly skilled can have a significant impact on knowledge-based development in the regions to which they return. Whereas previous research has mainly focused on developing and newly industrializing countries, this paper looks at high-skilled return migration in an East European transformation economy, namely Poland. In our paper, we propose an analytical framework which integrates migration theory and regional development perspectives. Based on narrative interviews with high-skilled return migrants in Warsaw and Poznań, we show that high-skilled return migrants have an impact on economic development by acting as both investors and innovators, i.e. that they transfer and successfully integrate financial means as well as different types of knowledge into these local economies. Furthermore, the Polish example illustrates that social relations and institutional context are crucial in understanding how high-skilled return migrants contribute to knowledge-based development.

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Section: The Case Of Poland: Context Hypotheses and Methodologymentioning

confidence: 99%

High-skilled Return Migration and Knowledge-based Development in Poland

Klagge

Klein-Hitpaß

2010

European Planning Studies

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“…However, the literature on this model shows that empirical results are far from convincing (Boldrin, Canova 2001;PugicerverPeňalver 2007). Hence, Churski (2005), and Baláž (2007) point out a strong core-periphery pattern of regional development in CEE countries with a strengthening position of core regions. This pattern is explained by the increasing importance of agglomeration economies (Geppert, Stephan 2008), and by a spatially uneven distribution of human capital (Baláž 2007), innovations (Simmie, Carpenter 2008), and infrastructure (Baláž 2007).…”

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confidence: 99%

Regional disparities, absorption capacity and Structural Fund payments: A case study of the Czech Republic

Novosák

Novosáková

Hájek

et al. 2017

Quaestiones Geographicae

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Novosák J., Novosáková J., háJek o., horváth P., 2017. Regional disparities, absorption capacity and Structural Fund payments: A case study of the Czech Republic. Quaestiones Geograpicae 36(4), Bogucki Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Poznań, pp. 81-92, 7 tables, 1 fig. abstract: The intention of this paper is to provide empirical evidence on how the factors of socio-economic disadvantage and absorption capacity influence the spatial distribution of Structural Fund (SF) payments among the Czech Republic's micro-regions during the 2007-2013 programming period. The empirical results indicate that agglomeration economies, innovation and entrepreneurship are associated with higher SF absorption capacity and higher SF payments, challenging the tendency for socio-economically disadvantaged regions to converge. SF absorption capacity measured especially by the number of project applications submitted for SF financing and by the average SF budget per project application, is a crucial concept in order to understand the relationship between within-country regional disparities and SF interventions.

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“…The traditional approach to regional policy emphasizes the use of public funding to achieve balanced regional development (see, e.g., Schout and Jordan, 2007). The largest part of public funding should be, therefore, spent in lagging regions (see, e.g., Churski, 2005). Crescenzi (2009), and Crescenzi, De Filippis and Pierangeli (2015) claim, in this context, that public funding ought to be allocated in order to compensate structural disadvantages of various territories.…”

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Structural Funding and Intrastate Regional Disparities in Post-Communist Countries

Novosák

Hájek

Horváth

et al. 2017

TRAS

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The intent of this paper is to provide empirical evidence about associations between structural fund allocation in the Czech Republic's micro-regions for the programming period 2007 to 2013, and intrastate regional disparities by considering the three traditional pillars of sustainable development. The results have mixed evidence, both supporting and not supporting various associations. Economically disadvantaged micro-regions had less structural fund allocation in the economic pillar of sustainable development. To the contrary, socially disadvantaged micro-regions were allocated more structural funds in the social pillar of sustainable development. Therefore, a compensatory effect in sustainable development was observed between economic and social pillars. Results in the environmental pillar were insignifi cant. The results in this paper provide an ambivalent conclusion regarding the contention that spatial distribution of structural funding actually contributes to a reduction in intrastate regional disparities at the micro-regional level. However, micro regions with better economic conditions, e.g. agglomeration economies, better human capital and patent activities -received more structural funding in total.

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Problem areas in Poland in terms of the objectives of the European Union's regional policy

Cited by 14 publications

References 6 publications

High-skilled Return Migration and Knowledge-based Development in Poland

High-skilled Return Migration and Knowledge-based Development in Poland

Regional disparities, absorption capacity and Structural Fund payments: A case study of the Czech Republic

Structural Funding and Intrastate Regional Disparities in Post-Communist Countries

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