Territorially unequal rural development: the cases of the LEADER Initiative and the PRODER Programme in Andalusia (Spain) Cañete Pérez, José Antonio Cejudo García, Eugenio Navarro Valverde, Francisco Antonio european rural development Local Action Groups neo-endpgenous rural development LEADER approach Andalusia Publicación embargada This paper studies the territorial effects of the LEADER approach in Southern Europe, by analysing the region of Andalusia (Spain). Our research has revealed that, in many cases, projects were concentrated in the most dynamic, most populated areas, with a well-established business network with the financial and organizational capacity required to access European funding. In these areas, the economic leadership of the most dynamic municipalities has been reinforced at the expense of more depressed areas with little social capital and few businesses. These programmes have not, therefore, helped to mitigate territorial imbalances. In a minority of rural areas, however, this trend was not observed, which shows that although territorial inequality is a widespread problem in the practice of neo-endogenous rural development, it does not affect all areas to the same degree. 2024-01-30T10:29:44Z 2024-01-30T10:29:44Z 2018 info:eu-repo/semantics/article José Antonio Cañete, Francisco Navarro & Eugenio Cejudo (2018) Territorially unequal rural development: the cases of the LEADER Initiative and the PRODER Programme in Andalusia (Spain), European Planning Studies, 26:4, 726-744, DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2018.1424118 https://hdl.handle.net/10481/87601 10.1080/09654313.2018.1424118 eng European planning studies; info:eu-repo/semantics/embargoedAccess Routledge