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The article presents selected elements of studies on factors influencing the quality of life of elderly people vs the EU-27. The focus is on the multitude and diversification of the income of old age pensioners’ and disability pensioners’ households in reference to groups with other sources of income. The article also discusses the problems of the threat of poverty and the subjective sense of poverty...
Статья посвящена 10-летию вступления Латвии в Евросоюз (01.05.2004), в связи с этим определенный интерес представляет вопрос - что изменилось за это время в материальной ситуации латвийских домохозяйств. Главным критерием зажиточности в ЕС служат средние расходы (эквивалентные) на одного человека в домохозяйстве; в статье для сравнительного анализа использованы данные ежегодных обследований бюджетов...
This paper presents the findings of the socio-economic impact of household-level water harvesting technology. Before water harvesting was introduced, onions were not grown in the area due to lack of seedlings. Thus onion seedlings were grown on 100 m2 plots using water from the ponds in the dry season, then sold or planted under rainfed conditions during the rainy season. The results obtained show...
The NWFPs (non-wood forest products) sector is of the crucial importance to the Polish households but its social and economic role is varied and depends on place of residence. For the inhabitants of villages and small towns forests are the place of working and NWFPs sale provides an additional financial resource. City-dwellers do not treat NWFPs as a source of income but rather as an element of recreation...
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