Priestorové aspekty čerpania štrukturálnych fondov v Nitianskom samosprávnom kraji v rokoch 2004-2006

Year, pages: 2010, 347 - 373

Currently, the scientific geographical literature does not pay adequate attention to the spatial aspects of drawing financial resources from structural funds although these financial resources represent one of the most important sources for the regional development of municipalities. Therefore, the aim of the study is the analysis of financial cash flows on the level of municipalities from the structural funds of the European Union during 2004-2006. It was a short programming period in which Slovakia, as a member of the European Union, could draw financial resources from the structural funds for its regional development for the first time. A specific feature of this period was the beginning of fiscal decentralization of municipalities, the basis of a new system of financing regional/local self-government. The justness of the studied issues is evident with regard to the already written stu-dies regarding, for example, the labour market and poverty on regional, subregional and local levels. The study is based on critical analysis of a database of final beneficiaries, cartographic visualization of their incomes and subsequent interpretation. The acquired information was compared with selected correlated themes (poles of growth, size categories of municipalities, centres of professional associations of municipalities so-called “microregions“). The results of the study showed that rural communities spent nearly 93% of the total funds. On the one hand, this suggests overestimating of cities as poles of development and on the other hand it may mean a successfully started process of endogenous development of municipalities.

Kramáreková, H. 2010. Priestorové aspekty čerpania štrukturálnych fondov v Nitianskom samosprávnom kraji v rokoch 2004-2006. In Geografický časopis, vol. 62, no.4, pp. 347-373. 0016-7193.

Kramáreková, H. (2010). Priestorové aspekty čerpania štrukturálnych fondov v Nitianskom samosprávnom kraji v rokoch 2004-2006. Geografický časopis, 62(4), 347-373. 0016-7193.