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This paper focuses on local partnerships which play an important role in the local implementation of the rural development policy of the European Union. The objective of this study is to reveal whether the Hungarian local partnerships really fulfil the directives of the European Union concerning the active participation. The participative characteristics of members of local partnerships are studied...
The article presents the classification of rural counties in Mazowieckie Voivodeship depending on the level of entrepreneurship. The analysis applies data from the Local Data Bank CSO for the period 2005-2009.
The paper presents the analysis of the pre-requisites, conditions and assumptions of the concept of smart specialization as both economic concept of knowledge based growth and real policy tool for the EU regions to the year 2020. It also makes a diagnose of Mazovia province with regard to smart specialization capacities and attempts to find out if the Cluster of Innovations in Agribusiness created...
The article describes the 2008 net working capital management in the European agriculture on basis of the country level data to show differences between the countries in relations between economic indicators. The FADN database was used. A descriptive and comparative analysis were applied, and the basic indicators of the financial analysis were calculated. It has been demonstrated, that the agriculture...
The study presents results of assessing the influence of the size of investment expenses of communes on incomes of enterprises, inhabitants, the financial situation of communes and the level of population’s satisfaction. They enabled constructing a synthetic measure allowing to assess the aggregated (total) effectiveness of investment expenses of local government units of the basic level. They concurrently...
The paper presents an analysis of certified seed use in the provinces in Poland. The used data come from Central Statistical Office and concern the period 2004-2011. The aim of this study was to determine the regional imbalances present in the used certified seeds. The spatial Moran’s correlation: global and local is applied in the paper. Results of the statistical analysis of regional differences...
Eight years after the EU-accession, the experience and results of the accession may be analyzed. This article examines the effects of accession on the farm economic situation of the four Visegrad countries, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia; their economic and financial status was compared with the EU-15 average. The study applies data from the international publicly available FADN...
Using the household survey data collected in five urban centers of Uganda, the article describes and analyzes preferences regarding bakery goods and the traditional source of starch – cassava. Bakery goods made from mostly imported wheat are better known to urban than rural residents because of the difference lifestyle and consumption pattern. Growing demand for processed foods requiring less preparation...
The article attempts to present the agrarian structure in the Pomerania and Kujawy regions in the years 1920 and 2002. The differentiations occurring within the agrarian structure were measured with the application of the Gini coefficient. As shown in the paper, despite the flow of time and the shaping transformations the structure has not been changed significantly. In the majority of the districts...
The article presents the results of the research on the situation of the cooperative banks and the trends as regards the selected factors that determined this situation in the years 2000-2011. The cooperative banks won important and valued capital of trust, and their current customers appreciate the quality of their services. The cooperative banks, however, have systematically lost their market position...
This paper deals with the issue of measuring and reducing level of agricultural domestic support within the WTO provision. The emphasis is on the analysis of the implementation process of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture in the field of domestic support, as well as explaining its effects. Finally some improvements are proposed in the way the trade distorting programs are measured and which...
After the political, economical and social transformation in Hungary, rapid and radical changes have been realized in the labour market: from the beginning of the nineties 1.7 million jobs disappeared suddenly, which was a drop of 30%. The unemployment rate touched its bottom by 12.6% in 1993, now, the current rate (11.6%) is appro - aching to it. In the rural areas, where agriculture was the main...
Signs of the crisis of the Hungarian agriculture are in relation with the economic and social model that has become rigid throughout the past two decades. The evolved structure of agricultural holdings the networks among the farmers have been restructured as well as have become losen. The degree of trust has decreased. Based on the principles of the modern economic schools, e.g. the game theory, the...
The paper aims to analyze the opportunities of development of information technologies in the agricultu - ral enterprises in Hungary. It uses extended questionnaire done among such enterprises as a basic research tool of data collection. The statistical analysis of collected data answered the questions regarded the ways of development.
The article compares the efficiency scores obtained using traditional financial indices, and the frontier approaches such as the Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SAF) and the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) methods. The comparative analysis is conducted on a group of the food industry companies for 2007 and 2008. Two financial ratios, namely the ROA and the ROS, are used as a classical measure of efficiency...
The aim of the paper is to present the analysis of development of compulsory farmer’s third-party liability insurance of farmers and farm building insurance. The study covers also voluntary insurance of crop and livestock. The study is prepared on the basis of the Polish Financial Supervision Authority (PFSA) (Polish: Komisja Nadzoru Finansowego) for the years 2006-2011
The paper analyses the firm growth after 2004 in small and medium firms of food chain in central region of Hungary using survey data. Authors focus on four factors explaining firm growth including managerial skills, firm characteristics, external company linkages, and industry specificity. Contrary to previous studies concentrating only on producers’ behaviour this paper investigates three stages...
The paper discusses changes taking place in the area of milk production and at dairy farms in the years 2004- 2011 in particular regions of Poland. Moreover, an attempt is undertaken to answer to the following question: What factors and to what degree determine development of cattle breeding and milk production in particular regions of Poland? Conducted surveys and analyses evidence that regional...
The aim of the examination is to draw the attention to the usage of procedures in the field of clustering, which can handle ordinal variables without distance measurement (e.g. Euclidean distance) and leads to a significantly more accurate result furthermore.
The article presents the structure and organization of selected stages of the Polish grain supply chain. The analysis was conducted for three stages of the supply chain, namely: the production, purchase and trade as well as processing. The critical assessment of the chain integration was conducted using the modified SWOT analysis identifying the weaknesses and threats of Polish grain supply chain...
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