Bavaria's Regional Policy
Bavaria s economic policy is based on a four-pronged
supply-side oriented strategy.
Goals
1. Provide cost reductions
to enhance industry s global competitiveness
2. Promote steady growth and
employment gains by strengthening the dynamics of the market economy.The
state is therefore privatizing its financial holdings and other interests,eliminating
unnecessary bureaucracy,accelerating planning and approval processes and
introducing deregulation with mid-sized companies in mind.
3. Modernize and build up systematically
the infrastructure.
4. Champion a policy of New
Products New Plants New Markets for business sectors confronting
economic structural changes by making support of investments and innovations
available as well as facilitating start-ups policies designed to
benefit especially small and mid-sized enterprises developing their global
markets.
All regions are contributing now to
the dynamic economic development of Bavaria. A target-oriented regional
policy has helped the Free State redress the drawbacks of structurally
underdeveloped rural regions and former borderline zone, ensuring for
all regions access to general economic development.
Road network improvement, power supply and training of the workers were
but few of the many steps undertaken by the State Government along these
lines. Assistance to regional economies is an important element of the
regional policy of the Free State. Encouragement of investments into the
economic sector and its infrastructure did much for the opening of new
jobs and for keeping up former employment in the economically underdeveloped
peripheral regions. In addition to total investment of 13 billions euro
into the economic sector, the 1990s witnessed 1 billion euro in subsidies
and low-interest loans to the tune of 1.5 billions euro. These investments
alone created 60 000 new and preserved the existing 300 000 or so jobs.
The 1.5 billions euro invested into
economic infrastructure were supported by state subsidies of 0.5 billion
euro and low-interest loans of 205 millions euro.
Effective support of the regions shall
have to continue in order to level as much as possible the conditions
of life and work in all parts of Bavaria. The strongest affected regions
by the greater amounts of aid to the new federal provinces, or by the
difference in spending with respect to the Czech Republic, shall still
need this support in the future.
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