NON-REGIONAL GOVERNMENTAL POLICIES AS A KEY MECHANISM OF REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: THE CASE OF REGIONAL DIMENSION OF SECTORAL AND HORIZONTAL POLICIES IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC
Abstract
Public administration attempts to enhance development of socioeconomically lagging behind regions and to assist to "problematic" regions within various regional/national development strategies. However, financial resources of explicit regional policy are very limited in comparison to the entire amount of public finance, which is distributed to the terriory within the whole governmental macroeconomic policy.
Therefore, regional impact of financial flows pursued by "other non-regional governmental" policies (e.g., employment policy, environmental policy, transport infrastructure policy, policy dealing with public transport etc.) are much more profound than the territorial impact (and effects) of regional policy itself. The thesis deals with one of the parts of state macroeconomic policy - that of investment expenditure of central public administration in the Czech Republic.
A detail regional analyses of public capital expenditure distributed from the state budget and selected state extra budgetary funds during 1995-2005 has been undertaken. The aim was to contribute to the understanding of regional impact's nature of "other, non-regional" governmental policies missing explicit regional dimension.
Furthermore, the objective, inter alia, was to manifest implication fo the research for the design of socioeconomic development support to regions.