RURAL HOUSEHOLDS IN THE FACE OF POLAND'S INTEGRATION WITH EU

• Authors: Gutkowska K. , Ozimek I.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Rural households, as all other households, form a social-economic micro-system that is linked to the macro-system at various levels, especially at the level of the market of goods and services, and the level of the labour market. Because of the existence of these interrelations changes occuring both in the macro-system and micro-system generate mutual transformations within each of these systems. Simultaneously, the direction of evaluation of these changes is essential, with assessments ranging from extremely negative to positive. The results of conducted surveys prove that rural households have been particularly strongly affected by changes in the socio-economic macro-system, which are assessed negatively by most of them. A metaphorical expression of these assessments can be found in the opinion formulated by Wilkin (2000) who notes that the position of Polish farmers has changed from that of a privileged group into that of a bankrupt group. These negative assessments clearly determine the rural households' opinions on the process of integration with EU and exert an influence on their expectations as to changes relating to the satisfaction of their needs.

Keywords

EN

INTEGRATION WITH UE; RURAL HOUSEHOLDS; TRANSFORMATIONS

Discipline

• ECONOMICS: ECONOMICS

• Publisher: Institute of Rural and Agricultural Development, Polish Academy of Sciences; www.irwirpan.waw.pl
• Journal: Wieś i Rolnictwo
• Year: 2004
• Issue: 2(123)
• Pages: 53-66
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Gutkowska K.

author

Ozimek I.

• K. Gutkowska, Katedra Organizacji Ekonomiki Konsumpcji, Wydzial Nauk o Zywieniu Czlowieka i Konsumpcji, Szkola Glowna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego, ul. Nowoursynowska 159C, 02-776 Warszawa, Poland.

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

04PLAAAA000381