The article aims at searching determinants of development of rural areas in the Pilski sub-region. The factor analisis was used in order to detect the main factors from data gathered from GUS’s Census (1996, 2002, 2010). The analysis found 4 factors explaining 77% of communality – production...

The presented conception of multifunctional agriculture is a wider view of the process of creating and dividing the economic surplus in farming sector. It is a balanced approach which includes various aspects of creating the advantages for the community. The notion of agricultural...

The aim of the study is to find the answer to the question of how the Common Agricultural Policy aims to achieve optimality at the micro and macro levels, while taking into account social and environmental criteria. The authors wish to draw attention to the problem of ‘composition error’ in...

In the last few decades there has been much debate on the convergence theory of the general and the particular aspects of this process. It has, however, resulted in a lot of controversy, debate and confusion as to how one should measure and interpret the convergence. We show that...

The aim of the article is to present changes emerging in the agricultural policy of dynamically developing countries in the conditions of globalization. The elaboration pays attention to the specificity of dynamically developing states defined as BRCS countries. The changes taking place in the...

The aim of the article was to analyse the performance relationships between the imperfections of the market allocation connected with the agricultural sector and solutions in agricultural policy conditioned by globalization. The main areas of imperfection are described adverting to their...

Macroeconomic situation and the state of public finances in the EU and multi-annual financial framework for the period 2014-2020. State aid for agriculture in the European Union. Expenditures on the agricultural sector in Poland in the central budget and the budgets of voivodes in 2000-2012, and...

The aim of the article was to present changes affecting economic policy and macroeconomics conditions of states. We took into account the establishment of the integrative group by the combined countries. The evaluation looks at Mercosur and covers 17 years, 1995-2011. Differences between...

In the article one presented changes in the resource allocation of the land and the agricultural labour in 30 countries. One paid attention on the differentiation in these processes in countries. We presented dominant processes and curiosities. One evidenced the meaning of the financial support...

The article presents some considerations about the support for agriculture in the UE-15 and Poland and the role of its macroeconomic conditions. Stimuli applied by fiscal policy are of the great importance for creating a target model for transformation. The article consists of two parts. In the...