CUPRINS

PREFACE
Solving the absorption problems of communitarian’ financial
assistance, reflected especially by Structural and Cohesion Funds, should
represent the main concern of policy-makers both from the perspective of
exploring the possibilities of achieving real and nominal convergence with
European model and from the need of counteracting the impact of international
financial crisis over Romanian economy.
In this approach, this book highlights the potential and the importance
of European financial assistance in the restructuring process of Romanian
economy, shows how to access these funds and analyze changes that occurs in
the economic and social development from the use of structural instruments.
Hereby this book examines different methods, techniques and analysis
models of the structural instruments impact on the European Union cohesion
that are used by specialists with a vast experience in the field of regional
economic pattern-making under the aegis of some international and national
prestigious institutions (Hermin model, Herom model, EcoMod model, Quest
model). The access to a rich and very actual field information source from
countries with strong experience in the regional science field, allowed the
accomplishing of a vast synthesis regarding the methodology and practical
application in this field.
Another investigation direction of our research focused on the
Romania’s experience in using the structural instruments: Phare, I.S.P.A.
and S.A.P.A.R.D., but also on the manner in which the experience gained in
the pre-accession period influences the functioning manner of the present
system of the Structural and Cohesion Funds.
In this context, a large area of this analysis is focused on the evaluation
of Phare funds distribution in the 2000 – 2006 programming period as well
as on the absorption degree of these funds.
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