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Local Development in a European Union Perspective: Cohesion and Regional Policies in Central and Eastern Europe

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Regional Diversity and Local Development in the New Member States

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Cohesion Policy is a structural European policy which has the purpose of pursuing allocative and redistributive objectives and whose declared rationale was, from the very beginning, financial solidarity, integration and convergence1 between Member States as a means of balanced, general and more even development.

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  1. Department of Sociology, University of Trento, Italy

    Paul Blokker (Post-Doctoral Fellow) (Post-Doctoral Fellow)

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    Bruno Dallago (Professor of Economics and Academic Director, Joint European Master in Contemporary Local Development) (Professor of Economics and Academic Director, Joint European Master in Contemporary Local Development)

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Guglielmetti, C. (2009). Local Development in a European Union Perspective: Cohesion and Regional Policies in Central and Eastern Europe. In: Blokker, P., Dallago, B. (eds) Regional Diversity and Local Development in the New Member States. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230247017_4

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