Poverty North and South

Abstract

The 1980s have seen the European Community expanding to include the southern countries of Greece, Spain and Portugal. In consequence, the Community and its institutions have been obliged to address themselves to the problems of structural underdevelopment on an altogether greater scale than when such problems were largely confined to Ireland and southern Italy. Central to the Community’s efforts to prepare for the advent of the Single Market in 1992 is an expansion and reorganisation of its structural funds, in order to promote training and infrastructure investment in the structurally backward regions of the south.