Temjanovski, Riste (2008) Using IPA funds to promote economic and social development cohesion (special overview of transport policy in Republic of Macedonia). Annual Review, I (1). pp. 171-187. ISSN 1857-6117
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Abstract
In order to achieve and promotes coherent economic and social development European Union throughout the last three decades have been engaged, firstly, to promote economic and financial cohesion among the EU Member States, and secondly, as part of its responsibility for global development to support the economic and social development of non-EU members states, both those in the process of becoming EU members. In this context, the EU allocates part of its budget to support the economic and social development objectives of third countries. This assistance is channeled into these countries through a large number of instruments designed according to the specific circumstances and needs of individual groups of countries.
The main objective of the cohesion policy is to help reduce economic and social disparities within the EU Member States, and to help prepare the EU-accession countries for effective and efficient implementation of this policy once they become full EU Member States. By promoting cohesion, the EU contributes to a harmonious and sustainable development of the economic activities in the Member States, and also offers structural help to the EU-accession states within the framework of programmers of pre-accession support. Pre-accession programmes – PHARE, ISPA and SAPARD – which de-facto play the role of “external” instruments of economic and social cohesion, finance various programmes in the fields of infrastructure, industry, environment, services, agriculture, rural development and small business. In the next medium-term financial period of the EU, starting in 2007, these three instruments are integrated into a single pre-accession instrument - IPA (Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance).
Key words: EU, European investment funds, pre-accession programmes, transport infrastructure, economic and social cohesion
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | Social Sciences > Economics and business |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Economics |
| Depositing User: | Prof.d-r Riste Temjanovski |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Nov 2012 11:43 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Nov 2012 14:19 |
| URI: | https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/364 |
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