One can observe an general agreement that globalization is one of the main challenges for the contemporary human being. This conception depicts the process of passing from the world economy to the one “global” economical ...

The life and property insurance market in Poland has been developing dynamically since 1990. The legal foundations of insurance activities have been laid down in order to make the insurance companies act in a market-oriented ...

Local governments of the basic tier have to fulfill a big variety of tasks important for the people and business on their areas. To do that properly, they need sufficient money. There are many national acts which regulate ...

The trustworthy and correct economic and social forecasts have fundamental meaning and growing importance for the defining of the future tasks and responsibilities of governments and public sector; consequently, the ...

The paper assumes that metropolitan areas should be organised as entities entitled to their own, internal policy-making. The metropolitan areas policy should also be run by regional and national authorities. The legal ...

The article presents the results of a research on the changes in the economy of communes and counties (powiats) of the Łódź region. The research aimed at identifying economic processes which positively influence the ...

Modem economic and social system requires that certain activities are undertaken by local government in order to create favourable conditions for the society and economy. Municipal infrastructure is one of the main ...

Metropolitan areas are the most important elements of competing national economies. The nature of metropolitan areas, taking into account all dimensions of their functioning, is by far more complex than the scale of ...