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The aim of the paper is to assess the condition of China’s public finances, identify the main factors that contribute to the increase in public debt, and to provide some suggestions that could be considered to improve the quality of public finances and reduce systemic risk. To achieve the objective of research the descriptive comparative method was used. The analysis was carried out for the period...
The main purpose of this paper was to present the extent of using municipal bonds and to find a statistically significant relationship between the location of a municipality in the macroregion and the use of bonds. The study was carried out in 2017. The basic research tool was a survey questionnaire administered in 606 rural municipalities., and132 surveys were sent back by rural municipalities located...
Human capital is a category that has been the subject of economists’ considerations for years. Numerous concepts, research approaches and various ways of classifying capital have appeared. Since the 1990s, in accordance with the fundamental principle of dualism, according to which capital is an abstract category, an alternative scientific research program has been conducted in the field of measuring...
Financing investments is one the most important issues in the policy of local governments. One of the ways of supporting local governments are targeted grants for investments from the state budget. Recent years have been characterized by a change in the policy of financing local governments in this area, which was mainly related to the change of priorities from investment to social policy support...
The effectiveness of investment results is one of the basic and most frequently analyzed issues related to investment funds. Research on factors affecting the effectiveness of funds in both foreign and Polish literature is rare. In the case of research on commodity funds, this is difficult due to the relatively young, still developing market. This study attempts to determine whether the duration of...
Research into the effective ways of motivating employees occupies an important place in the literature of the subject. For many years the research on motivation to work has mainly been focused on the payment. Nowadays, more and more attention is given to using the non-financial tools in the motivation process. Today, motivating employees to work in the hotel industry includes a number of personalized...
The aim of this article is to present changes in consumption linked with deliberate limitations resulting from the assumption of a particular axionormative perspective, which is an outcome in the search for an innovative model of a consumer society based on the new culture of consumption. The discourse includes examples obtained by the author in the research conducted in 2018, using the method of...
The purpose of the article was to determine the impact of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) instruments on the economic and environmental sustainability of farms in Poland in 2004-2014. For this purpose, a panel analysis was used based on farm accountancy data network. It has been shown that agri-environmental subsidies are an instrument that had a positive impact on the economic and environmental...
The smart city concept has been growing in importance in the research activities worldwide as a direction in the development of modern cities. Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) solutions are quite a new transport concept introduced in a small number of cities usually in the pilot phase. The main purpose of the article is to explore the interactions and complementarity of these concepts. This paper analyses...
The main purpose of the article is to present issues of staff training for the purposes of marina management. Particular attention was paid to training as a way to improve and develop marina employees. The problem was presented using the example of specialized training for marina employees and operators. It was prepared according to a training process – a procedure based on selected research techniques...
One of the taxpayers responses to taxation is tax avoidance. Due to its intensification, Polish legislator has adopted a series of legislative measures to tighten the tax system. The aim of the article is to examine to what extent changes made to the tax law and in the operational framework of tax authorities, geared towards the tightening of the tax regime, impact on the attitude of Polish entrepreneurs...
The purpose of the research presented in the article was to attempt to measure the impact of the contentment with the involvement of particular groups of personnel in the performance of their duties on the potential satisfaction of the spa visitors. This paper includes the results of the exploratory research collected with the help of the questionnaire (distributed) among respondents, selected with...
The problem is finding the optimal and efficient model of public funding. The development of an objective theatre funding model is a major challenge for both the entities developing as well implementing the cultural policy. The aim of this article is to identify the criteria/measures having the potential effect on the increase of the audience numbers in individual theatres in Poland. This aim is implemented...
The subject of the paper is the analysis of economic growth and the situation of public finances in Czechia and Hungary in 2000-2018. The main research objective is to assess the effectiveness of the catching-up process, the budgetary policy and the situation in public finances in terms of the possibility to adjust economies to functioning in a common currency area and to orient budgetary policy towards...
Information is a source of knowledge in enterprise management, therefore its importance increases in today’s competitive environment. High-quality and timely information reduces uncertainty and risk of decision-making, hence the great interest of stakeholders in access to information. The purpose of the article is to interpret the concept of the quality, as it relates to non-financial information,...
The competitiveness of family-owned companies providing accommodation services is an important factor securing their operations. Among the characteristic features of the family-owned companies are: hospitality, the quality of the services provided and the relations between the guest and the owner which are based on mutual trust. Empirical research in the form of CAWI was carried out between 2017-2018...
The quality of life is nowadays one of the leading socio-economic and political topics. On an urban level its importance is growing as the megatrend of urbanization is reconstructing the global map of megacities. By 2050, two-thirds of the global population will live in cities. Therefore quality of life, although difficult for objective measurement, is one of the most important issues in sustainable...
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