Publication Date:
2013
Short description:
On the failure of European planning for less developed region. The case of Calabria / Mantovani, Michela; Magazzino, Forte. - (2013), pp. 367-398.
abstract:
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 in the
regional planning under the EU-Italian complex planning procedure for 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 most significant
variable was the number of nonprofit organization present in the municipalities. A relevant part of
the funds remained unspent for the purposes of the plan, and it was devoted to other destinations.
After the program, the number of visitors and revenues from museum and archeological sites of
Calabria was lower than before, while on average in Italy there was 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.
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 in the
regional planning under the EU-Italian complex planning procedure for 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 most significant
variable was the number of nonprofit organization present in the municipalities. A relevant part of
the funds remained unspent for the purposes of the plan, and it was devoted to other destinations.
After the program, the number of visitors and revenues from museum and archeological sites of
Calabria was lower than before, while on average in Italy there was 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.
Iris type:
2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)
Keywords:
cultural goods, ; tourism, public policies, public expenditure, ; Southern Italy.
List of contributors:
Mantovani, Michela; Magazzino, Forte
Book title:
pp. 367-398, (ed.),Finanzsoziologie, 3,