Wspólnotowa pomoc regionalna w sferze infrastruktury transportu i jej wpływ na spójność gospodarczą obszaru Unii Europejskiej

• Autorzy: Marcin Bujnowski

Warianty tytułu

European Union Regional Aid in Sphere of Transport Infrastructure and Its Impact on Economic Integrity of EU Area

• Języki publikacji: PL

Abstrakty

Na podstawie przeprowadzonej analizy można sformułować wniosek, w myśl którego unijna pomoc w sferze infrastruktury transportu udzielana regionom najsłabszym gospodarczo wydaje się mało efektywna z punktu widzenia zwiększania spójności gospodarczej obszaru Unii Europejskiej. Wysokie nakłady pochodzące z EFRR i Funduszu Spójności przeznaczane na rozwój infrastruktury transportu w regionach celu l skutkują wprawdzie zauważalnym wzrostem ich dostępności, jednak wzrost ten nie pociąga za sobą istotnej poprawy ich pozycji konkurencyjnej w stosunku do reszty Unii. Jak wynika z symulacji przeprowadzonych w ramach projektu ESPON, regiony otrzymujące największą pomoc w zakresie infrastruktury transportu zredukują w jej wyniku dystans rozwojowy dzielący je od reszty Unii (wyrażony różnicą PKB per capita) o zaledwie 1-2 pkt proc. w ciągu 20 lat.(fragment artykułu)

EN

The thesis of the paper comprises the conclusion that the European Union regional aid in the sphere of transport infrastructure significantly facilitates improvement of economic integrity within the entire EU territory. In the analysis, the Author makes use of not only the condition of equipment in transport infrastructure of a given region, but also of the concept of regions' accessibility, in order to obtain more complete picture of the role played by transport infrastructure in the processes of regional development. The Author analyses the nature of a concept of "accessibility of regions" and analyses its influence on the region's competitiveness. There are also presented the results of the analysis on the accessibility of selected regions and the volume the European Union regional aid on behalf of the transport infrastructure. Moreover, the Author justifies a distinction between the aid of regional importance and projects included in the so-called Trans-European Transport Networks. The assessment of the aid influence was largely based on the results of surveys carried out within the framework of the complex international project ESPON (European Spatial Planning Observation Network). The project constitutes the hitherto most advanced attempts at assessment of the situation and trends of spatial development in the extended European Union, as well as the consequences of actions initiated within the framework of Community policies for the shape of the European space. Following several assumptions that allow the appliance of the ESPON model in assessing the impact of the analysed aid on accessibility of the EU regions and economic integrity of its territory, there were obtained the results, on the basis of which the thesis presented at the beginning was verified negatively. The paper is concluded with the comments indicating the necessity of a rather careful interpretation of the final results. This derives i.a. from methodological limitations and from the construction of the applied model. (original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

PL

Pomoc regionalna UE; Infrastruktura transportu; Konkurencyjność regionów

EN

EU regional aid; Transport infrastructure; Regions competitiveness

• Czasopismo: Zeszyty Naukowe / Szkoła Główna Handlowa. Kolegium Gospodarki Światowej
• Rocznik: 2007
• Numer: nr 22
• Strony: 85--102

Twórcy

autor

Marcin Bujnowski

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