CUPRINS

Identifying the best practices in using communitarian assistance
especially represented through Structural and Cohesion Funds is an empirical
approach meant to facilitate the use of benchmarking techniques in adopting
the optimal model of European Structural and Cohesion Funds’ absorption.
This textbook intends to answer a number of questions, such as: What
was done during the pre-accession period through pre-accessing funds? What
was the area where the injection of Phare funds had the highest rates? Which
is the region with the most projects financed by Phare? What is the region with
the highest rate of absorption? Which counties are most experienced in the use
of European funds? What counties are less "involved" in the elaboration
process of projects? What are the lessons offered at community level and what
is the worth model to be followed to insure the success of the Structural and
Cohesion Funds’ absorption?
In this approach, I tried to offer you, on the bases of a very large and
recent documentation, a general picture regarding the development level of the
eight regions, the backing degree of certain development necessities as result of
the communitarian financial assistance use in the pre-accession period as well
as on the future finance requirements.
I dedicate this book to those who have been close by me during the
training period of my PhD.
Gabriela Marchis
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