The Regions and the European Community

The contributions to this volume analyse the role of sub-national institutions in the regional economic development process in the Community's less developed countries: Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy. They are structured on the basis of individual country reports providing background to the debate on decentralization in each national context and the regional role in economic development. The volume also contains an extensive analysis of the impact of European Community sectoral policies on the alleviation of regional disparities and an in-depth analysis of the EC's Integrated Mediterranean Programmes on the basis of a systematic content analysis of the programmes and field research conducted on six IMP programmes in Greece, Italy and France.