EU Cohesion Policy in the Czech Republic and Poland: Comparison of intervention areas among regions

Smékalová, Lenka; Kučera, Filip

dc.title	EU Cohesion Policy in the Czech Republic and Poland: Comparison of intervention areas among regions	en
dc.contributor.author	Smékalová, Lenka
dc.contributor.author	Kučera, Filip
dc.relation.ispartof	Scientific Papers of the University of Pardubice, Series D: Faculty of Economics and Administration
dc.identifier.issn	1211-555X Scopus Sources, Sherpa/RoMEO, JCR
dc.identifier.issn	1804-8048 Scopus Sources, Sherpa/RoMEO, JCR
dc.date.issued	2022
utb.relation.volume	30
utb.relation.issue	2
dc.type	article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	University of Pardubice
dc.identifier.doi	10.46585/sp30021554
dc.relation.uri	https://editorial.upce.cz/1804-8048/30/2/1554
dc.relation.uri	https://editorial.upce.cz/1804-8048/30/2/submission.manuscript
dc.subject	Czech Republic	en
dc.subject	regional development	en
dc.subject	cohesion policy	en
dc.subject	Poland	en
dc.subject	European structural and investment funds	en
dc.subject	lagging regions	en
dc.description.abstract	The cohesion policy of the European Union represents a significant part of its budget and delivers interventions across all regions of the EU. There is little consensus on its efficiency, and its links to fostering convergence on the regional level are uncertain. Nevertheless, regions were shown to benefit from policy interventions promoting their growth and development. The main objective of the policy is to reduce regional disparities that exist among lagging and other, more developed regions. Therefore, this paper focuses on the deliverance of the cohesion policy in Central and Eastern European countries, Poland and the Czech Republic. It explores the support of thematic interventions across its regions in the 2014-2020 period. Findings point out different thematic support of Polish regions according to their relative advancement. Lagging regions of Poland received more substantial support related to promoting the endogenous potential for development and increase in quality of human capital. In contrast, the Czech regions were treated comparably regardless of their development stages. This points to different approaches to implementing the cohesion policy in these countries.	en
utb.faculty	Faculty of Management and Economics
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10563/1011216
utb.identifier.obdid	43883942
utb.identifier.scopus	2-s2.0-85140953578
utb.identifier.wok	000891640000004
utb.identifier.wok	000917756100016
utb.source	j-scopus
dc.date.accessioned	2022-11-29T07:49:19Z
dc.date.available	2022-11-29T07:49:19Z
dc.description.sponsorship	[RO/2022/07]
dc.rights	Attribution 4.0 International
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dc.rights.access	openAccess
utb.contributor.internalauthor	Smékalová, Lenka
utb.contributor.internalauthor	Kučera, Filip
utb.fulltext.affiliation	Lenka Smékalová 1,* https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0263-1853 and Filip Kučera 2 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0500-8952 1 Department of Regional Development, Public Sector Administration and Law, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Mostní 5139, Zlín 76001, Czechia 2 Department of Regional Development, Public Sector Administration and Law, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Mostní 5139, Zlín 76001, Czechia * Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed.
utb.fulltext.dates	Received: 30 May 2022 Revised: 9 September 2022 Accepted: 29 September 2022 Published: 14 October 2022
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utb.fulltext.sponsorship	This contribution was supported by grant no RO/2022/07, “Platformy spolupráce a ekonomičtí aktéři: vytváření schopností pro nové perspektivní ukazatele konkurenceschopnosti a resilienci v éře pandemie COVID-19.”
utb.wos.affiliation	[Smekalova, Lenka; Kucera, Filip] Tomas Bata Univ Zlin, Fac Management & Econ, Mostni 5139, Zlin 76001, Czech Republic
utb.scopus.affiliation	Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Faculty of Management and Economics, Czech Republic
utb.fulltext.projects	RO/2022/07
utb.fulltext.faculty	Faculty of Management and Economics
utb.fulltext.faculty	Faculty of Management and Economics
utb.fulltext.ou	Department of Regional Development, Public Sector Administration and Law
utb.fulltext.ou	Department of Regional Development, Public Sector Administration and Law