Description:
With the advancement of GIS techniques, an ever growing amount of spatial data is available today. At the same time econometrics has been developed further which will allow to analyse such extended cross-sectional data sets (e.g. with `spatial econometrics`).
Stronger accountability requirements and European Union (EU budget constraints will increase the pressure towards policies targeted on specific objectives such as the provision of public benefits (environmental, rural, social) .
For the EU`s rural development programmes 2007-2013 Member States are requested to collect indicators on characteristics, needs, expenditures and results. Additionally, managing authorities in some Member States have created GIS-based databases with a huge amount of data related to area-based measures. What is lacking is analysis in which these data sets are combined with other indicators at a high level of regional disaggregation.
Research objectives:
To design a series of models for analyzing the impact of rural development programmes in the EU, with an emphasis on the spatial dimension.
Results and products:
The project results will allow for a better targeting of rural development programmes and European added value will come from pooling national resources to obtain an EU 27 model. The impact assessment of programming rural development measures beyond 2013 needs to use tools which are based on the full set of data available. |
