Agricultural
University of Athens
Department of Regional
& Economic Development

[6736] INSTITUTIONS AND POLICIES FOR REGIONAL DEVELOPMENTS

Course Content

1. THE NECESSITY OF REGIONAL POLICY: Exploiting the productive potential of the economy, achieving high rates of economic growth, limiting the cost of expanding social capital, avoiding social unrest and tensions, social justice and the market mechanism, offsetting the effects of other policies, dealing with effects of economic integration.
2. OBJECTIVES AND DILEMMA OF REGIONAL POLICY: Methodological issues in the exercise of regional policy, objectives of regional policy, relationships between the objectives of regional policy, dilemmas in the exercise of regional policy.
3. THE REGIONAL POLICY FRAMEWORK: The timelessness of the regional problem, the interrelation of the spatial levels, the internationalization of economic activities, economies and anti-economies of concentration, structural changes and the tertiarization of the economy, the spatial effects of European integration.
4. THE INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK OF THE EUROPEAN UNION: Founding treaties of the EU and main objectives, member states, institutions, stages of the economic integration of Europe, customs union, common single market, economic and monetary union.
5. POLICIES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION: Cohesion policy, common agricultural policy, structural industrial policy, competition policy, social policy, environmental policy, cultural policy, international economic relations policy, transport policy.
6. THE REGIONAL POLICY OF THE EUROPEAN UNION: Historical review, measurement of regional disparities in the EU, contemporary European regional development policy and methods of intervention, instruments and mechanisms (European Investment Bank - EIB, European Regional Development Fund - ERDF, Cohesion Fund, credits).
7. INSTRUMENTS OF EXERCISE REGIONAL POLICY: Public expenditure, infrastructure, development incentives, controls and restrictions, strengthening the mobility of labor and capital, strengthening flexibility, policies to support small and medium enterprises, decentralization of the public sector, human resources policies, intangible infrastructure policies, establishment of scientific institutions, cross-border cooperation policies, selective policies to deal with industrial decline.
8. REGIONAL DISTRIBUTION OF PUBLIC INVESTMENTS: The developmental importance of public investments, public investments and space, regional distribution strategies of public investments, determinants of the regional distribution of public investments, public investments in Greece.
9. INVESTMENT INCENTIVE POLICIES AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN GREECE: Types of development incentives, historical review, the development laws of the period 1981-2016, the actions to strengthen entrepreneurship and investments in the Community Support Frameworks, financing of the development laws, assessment of the regional effects, new Development Law.
10. THE KAPODISTRIA PROGRAM: Historical context, reasons for establishing and goals of the program, the law 2539/1997, the administrative division of the country into municipalities, prefectures and regions, evaluation of the program.
11. THE KALLIKRATES PROGRAMME: The causal basis of the planning and institutional implementation of the Kallikrates program and its functions for regional development, the new formation of self-governing services for development processes, the institutional changes of the Kallikrates program for municipalities and regions , the institutional framework of decentralized administration and its role in the development processes in the regions of the country, the institutional functions of the self-governing regions of Greece and their importance for regional development, the role of regional development funds.
12. INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK IN GREECE: The institutional framework for strengthening private investments for economic development, entrepreneurship and regional cohesion, the institutional framework of special plans for spatial development of strategic investments (ESHASE), the institutional functions of the financial framework of the development 2014-2020 program for sectoral and regional development policies.
13. SPATIAL PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT IN GREECE: Spatial planning - national policy, Spatial Planning at the National Level, Marine Spatial Planning, Spatial Planning at the National Level - Special Frameworks, Special Framework for Aquaculture, Tourism, Industry, for Renewable Energy Sources (RES) ), the reservation shops, Spatial planning at the regional level, spatial planning below the regional level, Residential Control Zones (ZOE), general directions of Specially Regulated Urban Development Areas (PERPO).

Learning results

After completing the course, it is expected that students will be able to:

To understand the structural components of the institutional framework of regional development, both at European and national level.

To understand the way in which the community and national institutions approach, define and perceive the concept of regional development, through the set of institutional acts and policies they practice and apply.

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Συναφή επιστημονικά περιοδικά

Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy (SAGE)

Development Policy Review (Wiley)

Regional Studies (Taylor & Francis)

European planning studies (Taylor & Francis)

The Annals of Regional Science (Springer)

Region (ERSA)

Regional Science Inquiry (H.A.R.S.)

Entrepreneurship and Regional Development (Taylor & Francis)

Journal of Economic Geography (Oxford) International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development (Interscience)

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Spyros Ntourmas

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