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The paper describes how, within the European single market, the economies of small nation states and regions of larger states have more in common than is often recognized. The author suggests that, as a role model in the design of a special development program for the eastern Polish regions, the example of Ireland is relevant to Polish regional administrations as they attempt to achieve the best return from capturing gains from European Union and national policies as well as building on their own, rather limited, locally devolved powers. The analysis demonstrates that during the 18-year period of three EU-assisted investment programs, the Irish economic policymaking environment shifted from one appropriate to a state on the periphery of Europe to that of a region more fully integrated into an encompassing European economy. The author concludes that the challenge facing regional policymakers is to understand how national policies can have both positive and negative regionally asymmetric impacts, while acknowledging the extremely constrained scope for designing offsetting region-specific policies within the context of the nation state. It is politically difficult to design regional policies that introduce fundamental differences between regions of a nation state other than in terms of the level of income redistribution. But if the Polish regional economies are to be renewed, big innovations are precisely what are needed.
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Poland’s potential accession to the European Union has necessitated a preparation and presentation to the European Commission of the National Development Plan (NDP) 2004-2006 - the primary document programming the use of structural funds in Poland within the framework of implementation of the EU cohesion policy. Presentation of ex-ante assessment of the macroeconomic effect of NDP realisation on the economy is an integral part of the programming document. For this reason, a Polish implementation of the macroeconomic HERMIN model has been developed. This model was, for the mentioned purposes, applied to European Union areas subject to the cohesion policy, i.e. to Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Greece and to eastern Lands (Lander) of Germany. At present, it has also been prepared for application to the candidate countries, such as the Czech Republic, Latvia, Estonia or Slovenia. The study briefly characterises the theoretical foundations of the HERMIN model and its Polish implementation to the ex-ante assessment of the impact of Poland’s National Development Plan (NDP) 2004-2006 realization on the Polish economy. Consequently, analyses of financial transfers associated with NDP realisation were carried out, taking into account both their breakdown into specific years of the 2004-2009 period, and their breakdown into three major categories: investment in infrastructure, investment in human capital and support for enterprise development. On this basis, simulations for the period up to 2010 were made for two alternative scenarios: the first - assuming Poland’s accession to the EU on 1 May 2004 and implementation of the NDP 2004-2006 and, the second - assuming Poland’s staying outside the EU structure and no implementation of the NDP. The results have been presented as a differential between these two scenarios for such parameters as: GDP growth, unemployment level, production and productivity in the analysed sectors of the economy, i.e. manufacturing, services, agriculture and the public sector, the public sector deficit, consumption, prices and wages. The results are shown as an effect caused exclusively by the EU structural funds, and jointly by the EU funds and Polish public funds within the NDP 2004-2006. Additionally, results of simulations are presented for continued EU support in the years 2007-2013 in the form of another NDP with an annual average support level of 2% and 2.5% of GDP. The results of simulation have been supplemented with an analysis of sensitivity to deviation from the adopted assumptions. At the same time, the study indicates directions for further efforts towards the model’s improvement and its extension into the economies of particular regions of Poland as instruments for analysing the problems involved with regional development, which have to be solved with support o EU Structural Funds, as well as national cofinancing of the public and private sectors.
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