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The thesis’s established timeline consists of the 2007-2013 structural programming period specifically in which the data collection consists of data obtained from Eurostat, Inforegio, as well as the National Strategic Reference Frameworks (NSRFs) from each of the respective member states and regions. The results obtained, however, indicate a positive, yet moderately low, correlation between political autonomy and economic “success” and a negative, albeit low, correlation between structural fund allocation and the Outermost Regions’ economic success towards the end of the 2007-2013 programming period.","abstract_html":"The Outermost Regions are among the EU’s least developed regions. As a result, European policy-making towards them are often catered to their realities as stated in EU treaties and Commission Communications. Despite EU recognition of their socio-economic challenges, their levels of socio-economic development continue to be among the EU’s lowest. 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