Ensuring high quality and food safety has become one of the priorities of the Common Agricultural Policy both at the European Union and individual countries within it, including Poland. Therefore, in the Rural Development Programme for 2007–2013 has been proposed in Measure 132 to a special...

The main objective of the study was to evaluate the potential of investment attractiveness of rural areas in Poland. An attempt was made at setting up a hierarchy and grouping of municipalities and regions in Poland in terms of a synthetic index of attractiveness for investors. In addition, an...

The article deals with a spatial analysis of the general condition of Polish agriculture and the level of farmers’ activity in obtaining subsidies from the EU funds. The results have been presented in the form of an average standardized value while the difference between them has been...

Size-of-farm data for 1964 were fitted to the function In Y =In a�bX Results showed that the percentage distribution of farms by size classes tends to follow the distribution of an inverse exponential function. Furthermore, empirical size distributions seem to have an underlying stability...

A generally accepted theory of firm behavior is incorporated into an abstract computerized simulation model capable of handling many different environments and organizations. This model provides a means of studying management problems using the simulation approach by providing, in most...

The paper presents changes in the structure of population's economic activity following a division into urban and rural population. The period of investigation covers years 1993-2009. The research deals with synthetic measures of the intensity of structure transformation as well as with average...

The aim of the paper was an attempt to show the essential terms of measurement of intellectual capital in agricultural farms. The meaning of this capital as a unique resource of enterprises, which distinguishes the enterprise from the others in a competitive market is discussed. Possible...

Inflation and unemployment plagued the U S economy during the decade of the seventies Some economic models suggest that inflation and unemployment are bi-polar events - they cannot occur at the same time This article reviews two models that have been in the economics literature since the...

A stochastic computer simulation model is used to estimate disaster payments under the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973. The model uses a random yield generator and actuarial techniques. Simulated payments under 1976 program parameters and stochastic yields are estimated at $300...