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Maciej Wysocki, Cezary Wójcik (2021/6, Articles,
In 2016–2019 Poland experienced a major social and fiscal policy shift: new government decreased the statutory retirement age and launched several new social programs, including the sweeping Family 500+ program under which social expenditure on family and children support increased suddenly from 1.5% to nearly 3% of GDP. Moreover, VAT gap reduction policies have been implemented swiftly (...)
Marta Postuła, Jacek Tomkiewicz (2019/5, Articles,
Fiscal Adjustment and public finance Management in the Euro Area
This article focuses on the effects of corrections to the budgetary policy in eurozone economies. The goal is to check whether advancement in implementing modern tools of public management is helpful in the time of fiscal adjustment. The authors assume that the most important role of a performance approach in conducting fiscal policy is the ability of government to implement an active (...)
Andrzej Czyżewski, Ryszard Kata, Anna Matuszczak (2019/1, Articles,
Budget expenditures are the main instrument for the implementation of the allocation function of public finances with reference to agriculture and rural development, because of their influence on agricultural resources and socio-economic processes occuring in the rural areas. The purpose of the article was to determine the impact of budget expenditures on the allocation of production (...)
Tomasz Kubin (2017/4, Articles,
External Financial Aid and Economic Reforms in Greece as Anticrisis Measures and Their Effects
Greece was most keenly hit by the global economic crisis among all EU countries. As a state, Greece has de facto become bankrupt; a formal declaration of insolvency has been avoided thanks to external financial aid received. In this connection, radical economic reforms have been introduced. The article tries to assess economic effects of these reforms and of financial aid from abroad. The (...)
Piotr Ptak (2016/4, Miscellanea,
Fiscal Conditions for Growing out of Debt in Europe
Sovereign debt crisis in the euro zone put in the spotlight the issue of restoring the balance in the public finances of indebted countries as to resorte their capacity to borrow again on financial markets. Restoring fiscal balance will be a difficult task due to poor economic outlook in most EU countries, particularly in the euro area. The attempts to accelerate economic growth by means of (...)
Public Interest and Group Interests in the Polish Legislation
The paper presents the results of the research on the implementation of group interests in the legislative process in Poland, made on a sample of 1365 laws passed in 1990-2011. Two mutually related questions are analyzed: the state of the Polish legislation and the impact of various interest groups on the shape of law. The results of the research do not give a direct insight in the process (...)
Grażyna Kozuń-Cieślak (2013/3, Articles,
The Effectiveness of Public Investment in Human Capital
Human capital is one of the major factors responsible for economic development; investments made in the human capital add to the wealth of nations, accelerating civilization progress and increasing international competitiveness. The aim of the article is to assess the effectiveness of public investments in human capital in the EU member countries using the linear programming method called (...)
Kazimierz Łaski, Jerzy Osiatyński (2013/1, Articles,
Consolidation of public finance and the Euro Crisis
The authors see the roots of the present euro-zone crisis in three pillars of market fundamentalism on which the construction of the European Economic and Monetary Union is founded: 1) separation of a common monetary policy from national fiscal policies of individual member countries; 2) the goal of government budget equilibrium which is believed to provide macroeconomic stability of each (...)
Heller Janusz, Kotliński Kamil (2012/2, Miscellanea,
public finance in the EU-15 Countries and the Participation in the Euro Area
Bogumiła Mucha-Leszko, Magdalena Kąkol (2011/4, Miscellanea,
Portugal in the monetary union: Economic Problems and the Crisis of public finance
Andrzej Wernik (2009/6, Book Reviews,
Anna Moździerz, Disequilibrium in public finance
Arkadiusz Babczuk (2008/6, Articles,
Deficit and Public Debt in the Light of Pre-Keynesian Thought
Managers of public finances and thinkers were interested in public debt long time before economic theory started to be formulated. Initially negative attitude to public debt was a consequence of theological criticism of financial usury. For the first time public debt as instrument of public finance management was accepted by mercantilists. In first half of XIX century most economists (...)
Leszek Zienkowski (2007/6, Articles,
Determinants and Perspectives for Economic Growth in the Coming Years
Results of international comparisons that evaluate determinants of economic growth are presented at first. It is noted that Polish economy is located in each sphere at one of the lowest positions among referred to countries. That indicates the need for economic reforms – the most important relate to business conditions and to public finance. However the results of comparative studies (...)
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