The paper is dealing with the credit support to the Czech agriculture provided by Supporting and Guarantee Agricultural and Forestry Fund (SGAFF) during the ten years period since the inception of its activities in 1994 do the year 2003 which preceeded to the Czech entry into European Union (EU)...

This paper presents an analysis of the available options for an effective EU rural development policy. A classification of the methods used to determine an optimal rural development policy can be viewed as the specific aim of the paper. This aim is achieved by discussing...

The article is dealing with the evolution of Czech and Slovak institutions of government support of agricultural credit during the period of economic transition. Both the development of credit and the forms of government support used in the Czech Republic are compared with their corresponding...