El FCI como instrumento de solidaridad interterritorial: una propuesta de reforma

Most solidarity in Spain has corresponded to EU Structural Funds, which does not reflect the importance the Spanish Constitution attaches to interterritorial solidarity. The current paper seeks to consider the need for reform in FCI (Spanish acronym for Interterritorial Compensation Fund), focusing...

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Published in:Estudios de economía aplicada 2010-04, Vol.28 (1), p.165
Main Authors: Ogando Canabal, Olga, RODRÍGUEZ PRADO, BEATRIZ, Zarzosa Espina, Pilar, Moyano Pesquera, Pedro
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Subjects:
Economic development
Principal components analysis
Social conditions & trends
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Summary:Most solidarity in Spain has corresponded to EU Structural Funds, which does not reflect the importance the Spanish Constitution attaches to interterritorial solidarity. The current paper seeks to consider the need for reform in FCI (Spanish acronym for Interterritorial Compensation Fund), focusing primarily on an analysis of the eligibility criteria applied to determine which regions should benefit. Given the limitations evidenced in economic literature regarding the use of per capita GDP as a measure of imbalance, we construct a synthetic development indicator able to express interterritorial inequalities using two approaches: Principal Component Analysis and the DP2 Synthetic Indicator of Distance
ISSN:1133-3197
1697-5731