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How rural is the EU RDP? An analysis through spatial fund allocation

Bio-based and Applied Economics

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Title How rural is the EU RDP? An analysis through spatial fund allocation
 
Creator Camaioni, Beatrice
Esposti, Roberto
Lobianco, Antonello
Pagliacci, Francesco
Sotte, Franco
 
Subject rurality and peripherality
EU rural development policy
 
Description Although representing less than 20% of total CAP expenditure, the Rural Development Policy (RDP) 2007-2013 is supposed to support rural areas which are facing new challenges. Currently, many EU rural areas are experiencing major transformations and the traditional urban-rural divide seems outdated (OECD, 2006). Going beyond dichotomous definitions and approaches, the paper applies at EU NUTS 3 level a new composite and comprehensive measure of rurality and peripherality (the PeripheRurality Indicator, PRI): the higher this index, the more rural and peripheral a given region is. Within a Principal Component Analysis (PCA) approach, this indicator takes into account both conventional socio-economic indicators and the relevant geographical characteristics of the region. On the basis of this analysis, the paper also puts forward a clusterisation of NUTS 3 regions across Europe and assesses the correlation between the RDP expenditure intensity, the PRI and the different regional clusters. This analysis is aimed at assessing the coherence of RDP fund allocation with the real characteristics of EU rural space.
 
Publisher Firenze University Press
 
Date 2013-10-26
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/bae/article/view/3246
10.13128/BAE-13092
 
Source Bio-based and Applied Economics; Vol. 2 No. 3 (2013): Between Crisis and Development: Which Role for the Bio-Economy; 277-300
2280-6172
2280-6180
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/bae/article/view/3246/3246