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On the failure of European planning for less developed regions. The case of Calabria

Francesco Forte, Cosimo Magazzino and Michela Mantovani

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: This study analyzes the negative performance of Calabria’s Regional Program 2000-2006, for the enhancement of cultural goods to attract tourism, as an example of the waste of resources of EU ambitious planning for the economic convergence. The empirical analysis shows that the variables relating to cultural sites, education sites and sites with tourism or tourism potentialities had no significance or even negative influence. The significant variables were the number of non profits present in the municipalities and the criminal hubs. The presence of cultural sites is not statistically significant in the allocation of funds to the criminal hubs, After the program the number of visitors and revenues from museum and archeological sites of Calabria lower than before while on average in Italy has had a great increase. On the other hand tourism in Calabria experienced a differential increase , in spite of the waste of the funds of the European regional policy.

Keywords: Cultural goods; tourism; public policies; public expenditure; Southern Italy. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H41 R10 Z10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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