"Rural Balkans and EU integration. An Input-Output Approach"

The REAPBALK project (Rural Employment and Agricultural Perspective in the Balkan Applicant Countries) is an European research (Contract no. QLK5-CT-2001-01608) financed by the EU Fifth Framework Research Programme: "Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources" (Key Action 1.1.1.-5.5: "New tools and models for the integrated development of rural and other relevant areas"). The research had a duration of 36 months. It officially started on 1st October 2001 and ended on 30 September 2004. The research has been co-ordinated by Franco Sotte, Department of Economics of the Polytechnic University of Marche – Ancona, Italy. It involved 6 further research teams from different countries: Bulgaria (Sofia), Croatia (Split) , Greece (Thessaloniki), Romania (Cluj-Napoca), Slovenia (Ljubljana), UK (Wye) .