Economic and Social Cohesion in Europe
Economic and Social Cohesion in Europe

Author: Achille Hannequart

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 1992-10

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1134962894

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Examines ways in which Structural Funding could be reformed to avert potential crises of uneven development within the EC.

Contemporary Portugal
Contemporary Portugal

Author: Stephen Syrett

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-11-22

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 135176697X

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This title was first published in 2002. Portugal experienced rapid and dramatic change over the final decades of the twentieth century. After the turbulence that followed the 1974 revolution, the 1980s and 1990s provided a period of unprecedented political stability and economic modernization during which Portugal converged rapidly with the wealthier member states of the European Union. This important new volume offers a timely focus on this recent period. Written for a wide audience by a multidisciplinary team of experts, the book provides an accessible overview and analysis of the key dimensions of recent economic and political change in Portugal and identifies the tensions and policy challenges that rapid change has produced. In so doing the book reveals something of the complexity of contemporary Portugal: an outward looking modern, democratic and European state, but one where the legacy of its recent traditional, colonial and often inward looking past continues to influence and shape its development in the twenty-first century.

The Public Employment Service Greece, Ireland, Portugal
The Public Employment Service Greece, Ireland, Portugal

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 1998-10-26

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 926416376X

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This publication examines how the Public Employment Service can actively promote and manage transitions out of unemployment into market work, both directly and via labour market programmes in Greece, Ireland, and Portugal.

Development of the Portugese Economy
Development of the Portugese Economy

Author: David Corkhill

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-03-11

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 1134759118

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This book reveals how the previously weak Portuguese economy has now experienced growth, convergence, structural change and international competition. David Corkhill analyses the Europeanization of the Portuguese economy in the context of closer European integration, globalization and the struggle to achieve international competitiveness. It also assesses the pitfalls Portugal may face as part of Europe.

Innovation and Technology — Strategies and Policies
Innovation and Technology — Strategies and Policies

Author: Olivério D.D. Soares

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 1997-02-28

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0792344359

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Innovation and Technology - Strategies and Policies contains a selection of outstanding contributions by world experts on how a culture of innovation is able to produce a response to fast global changes affecting society. The book describes major evolutionary directions and foreseen trends in: environment versus industry; technology breakthroughs; energy planning; education and research; intangible investment requirements; new health technologies; and economics and management of innovative actions at strategic, organisational and technological levels. The actual percolation of the innovative process throughout the multiple facets of society is presented in relation to the main challenges facing us in the 21st Century. The book is addressed to all those concerned with innovation in dynamic terms as a creative response to the ongoing changes in society integrating sciences, technologies, humanities, life-long education and training, and other disciplines.

Integration, Growth, and Cohesion in an Enlarged European Union
Integration, Growth, and Cohesion in an Enlarged European Union

Author: John Bradley

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2005-12-28

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 0387228543

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This book contributes fresh theoretical and empirical evidence on patterns of regional production structures, specialization, regional disparities, convergence and divergence processes and evaluation of cohesion policies in both current and future European Union (EU) member states in the context of increased integration. These subjects are addressed in both individual and cross-country analyses using innovative methodologies. The book is an essential reading for a large audience including researchers and policy makers working in the fields of economic integration, transition economics and regional development. The thirteen contributions brought together in this book are the result of recent research undertaken in the framework of a larger project initiated and coordinated by the Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI) of the University of Bonn on determinants of regional specialization, growth and convergence in the context of European integration. A number of these papers were presented to a conference on “European integration, regional convergence, location of industrial activity and labour market adjustment” initiated by the Center for European Integration Studies of the University of Bonn and organized jointly with the Center for European Studies of the University “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” of Iasi, Romania. We gratefully acknowledge the financial support from the European Commission Framework Programme and the Center for European Integration Studies of the University of Bonn.

Trans-European Networks
Trans-European Networks

Author: D. Johnson

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-12-22

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 0230373208

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Trans-European networks (TENs) are a key theme in the process of integration for the EU as it enters the next millennium. The attainment of these networks stretches across many different areas of European policy and economy. The development of TENs is about establishing a series of infrastructure networks that complement the broad changes in the European economy facilitated by the development of the Single European Market. The book examines the development of TENs in the three key sectors: transport, energy and telecommunications, noting key themes and issues that need to be faced in their attainment. Attention is also paid to common problems in their realisation most notably the financing problems. The EU's strategy to develop these networks is essentially market-led yet, as the financing issues indicate, a consensus between the states in allowing commercial investment in infrastructure is proving elusive.