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Regional Policies in East-Central Europe

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The chapter focuses on the regional policies of the East-Central European countries in a historical perspective, with the most recent developments after the EU accession in more detail. The processes of regional development are presented and the policy responses discussed. It is being argued that the implicit regional outcomes of sectoral approaches have prevailed over the results of explicit regional policies, no matter the political or economic system in existence. The EU membership has brought important and positive changes to the regional development of the E-CE countries; however, recent institutional changes in the NMS may challenge the future benefits from membership.

In this chapter East-Central Europe is limited to the new member states of the EU. These are Bulgaria, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Croatia will be covered in a more limited extent.

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Acknowledgments

This chapter was partly prepared within the project no. 2017/27/B/HS5/01906, “The role of EU funds in Poland’s regional and local development in light of international experiences,” financed by the National Science Center, Poland.

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  1. Centre for European Regional and Local Studies (EUROREG), University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

    Grzegorz Gorzelak

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  1. Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria

    Manfred M. Fischer

  2. Free University Faculty of Economics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Peter Nijkamp

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Gorzelak, G. (2021). Regional Policies in East-Central Europe. In: Fischer, M.M., Nijkamp, P. (eds) Handbook of Regional Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-60723-7_138

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