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"With reference to one or more MEDC country, evaluate the effects of regional development policies" Regional development policies were created to financially assist identified areas of countries that were suffering in some way. Usually these policies can be associated with attempts to regenerate areas suffering from unemployment and other effects of de-industrialisation, such as the 'Enterprise Zones', two of which were located in Corby and Dudley, in the East and West Midlands respectively. Regional policies were started in the 1930's in Britain, as an attempt to counteract the Great Depression. Since then, successive governments have adopted regional policies, but their commitment to them has varied, depending on their political views and, naturally, the state of the economy. All countries in the EU are entitled to some finance from the European Regional Development Fund although spending since 1988 has been largely aimed at targeting lesser-developed rurally based countries and regions, such as...

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