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Course code: RESS10095o12
Semester: 2012/2013 summer
Name: Regional policy
Major: Economics
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 4
ECTS points: 3
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 15 / 0
Lecturer: prof. dr hab. Barbara Kutkowska, dr Mirosław Struś, dr Henryk Łabędzki
Language of instruction: Polish


Learning outcomes: Student possesses theoretical knowledge from the range of the regional development. Students know the mechanisms of functioning the economy in the region and identifie endo- and egzo-factors of regional development, they understand the instruments of regional policy and know the aims of regional policy principles of UE.

Competences: Positive credit of the object makes possible the evaluation of regional development and ability to use regional data base. Students know the procedures of gaining of financial centres from regional operating programmes.

Prerequisites: Macroeconomics, Economy Policy

Course content: The definition of region. Criteria of regionalization. Regionalization versus globalization. Theoretical aspects of regional development.Factors of regional development.The regional policy of European Union. Stages of development.Aims and principles of regional policy.Instruments of regional and local policy.Structural funds of UE.Classification of territorial units for the needs of statistical investigations.Strategies of regional development.Regional Operating Programmes.The basic factors of the regional development. The analysis inter-regional differentiations in relation to the development factors.The typology of regions in relation to their development (the competitiveness of regions).

Recommended literature: 1) Kupiec L. – Polityka regionalna w okresie transformacji ustrojowej. PWN, Warszawa 1994. 2) Winiarski B. – Polityka gospodarcza . PWN, Warszawa 2006. 3) Strahl D. – Metody oceny rozwoju regionalnego. Wyd. AE im. O. Langego we Wrocławiu. 4) Grosse T. G. – Polityka regionalna Unii Europejskiej. Instytut Spraw Publicznych. Warszawa 2004 5) Ładysz J. Polityka Strukturalna Polski i UE,PWE 2008 6) Pietrzyk I. Polityka regionalna UE PWN ,2000

Assessment methods: obligatory credit of lectures and practices after 4th semester

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