@misc{10481/59718,
year = {2019},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/59718},
abstract = {For the period 2007–2013 LEADER became the fourth axis of rural development policy. One of the main
characteristics of LEADER is that it adopts a bottom-up approach. Local Action Groups (LAGs) have to define and
implement area-based local development strategies (LDSs). In this paper, we examine the relationship between variety
in the LDSs implemented by LAGs and employment safeguarding over the programming period 2007–2013
in Andalusia, the most populated region of Spain. Firstly, we construct several indicators to capture differences in the
number of projects carried out, the grants awarded, the investments made and the safeguarded employment. Secondly,
we carry out an exploratory factor analysis. We use cluster analysis to classify LAGs applying similar LDSs. The
results obtained show that there is no ideal strategy for employment safeguarding and that spending high amounts
of money in a few numbers of projects does not guarantee success. Thus, most LAGs do not show any clear specialisation
pattern but obtain moderate results in terms of employment safeguarding. This supports the idea that LAGs
need to have sufficient flexibility to find a balance among the different objectives of the rural development policy and
to translate this balance into the funding of projects.},
organization = {Supported by the Ministry of Economics and Competitiveness of Spain (Project “Development Programmes and Rural
Change in the European Union: governance, results and lessons to share 2007–2013”; Grant No. CSO2014-56223-P).},
publisher = {Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences},
keywords = {Local action groups},
keywords = {Rural development},
keywords = {Strategy},
title = {Variety in local development strategies and employment: LEADER programme in Andalusia},
doi = {10.17221/106/2018-AGRICECON},
author = {Rodríguez Molina, Mercedes and Sánchez, Luis Miguel and Cejudo García, Eugenio and Camacho Ballesta, José Antonio},
}