João Duarte and Pedro Brinca launch a study on European funds
Research | 25 April 2022 João Duarte and Pedro Brinca launch a study on European funds

Portugal only converged economically with the European Union thanks to European funds, in the period from 2014 to 2019. This is one of the main conclusions of the new study by Nova SBE, in collaboration with EuroRegião, just released. According to the research work by João Duarte and Pedro Brinca, “European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) – Impact Assessment in the different regions in Portugal”, these funds from Europe were important drivers in the process of economic convergence towards the EU from 2014 to 2019. If the ESIFs, within the PT2020 framework, had not existed, with the exception of the Algarve, all regions would have diverged from the EU.

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