Monitoring and attending evaluation of the Operational Programme of the German Bundesland Brandenburg 2007-2013 (ERDF)

The Ministry for Economics and European Affairs of the Land Brandenburg awarded the contract for the accompanying monitoring and evaluation of the implementation of the Operational Programme of the ERDF Brandenburg 2007-2013 to a bidding consortium including GEFRA.
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The volume and distribution of EU Structural Funds for the funding period 2007-2013 considering Turkey and Croatia

This paper comprises a hypothetical estimation of the allocation of financial means of the European Structural Funds for the period 2007-2013 assuming the inclusion of Turkey and Croatia for the whole recent funding period.
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Empirical regional research today

The GEFRA Working Paper 5/2010 "Regional growth effects of GRW funding?" by Björn Alecke, Timo Mitze and Gerhard Untiedt is released in a commemorative publication for Professor Hans-Friedrich Eckey, which includes articles on empirical regional research of high relevance for regional policy.
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20 years German Reunification – Is the East German economy still „sick“?

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the economic situation of East Germany still seems precarious. Not only is unemployment still twice as high as in the West German states, but -after initial success- the macroeconomic convergence process also slowed down since the mid-90s. This paper shows, however, that the low overall growth rate in the East German states can be observed not despite, but because of the rapid convergence in the first years after reunification.
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R&D and innovations in East Germany. Structural differences determine the backlog

Research and Development (R&D) and innovations are of high meaning for the economic development in East Germany. This study focuses - considering the specific structures - on a more differentiated view on the R&D and innovation potentials in East Germany. The paper written by Björn Alecke, Anne Otto and Gerhard Untiedt was published in “Informationen zur Raumentwicklung” by the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development.
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