Entrepreneurship is a distinguishing characteristic of managing societies as it determines success of individuals, organisations as well as remaining social and cultural phenomena having its source in needs and motivation of entrepreneur on the one hand; on the other hand, it is deep-rooted in...

This paper analyses investment made in higher education as well as Research and Development (R&D) in Poland and other OECD and EU countries. The aim of this paper is to assess the amount of investment made in higher education in Poland when compared with other countries as well as to verify the...

The Maastricht criteria with their focus on nominal and macroeconomic convergence are important conditions that Western Balkan (WB) countries have to comply with. A significant threat to convergence of these countries is their large and persistent Current Account (CA) deficits. In this paper, an...

Nowadays, in the enlarged European Union, a considerable debate on the phenomena of legal and illegal migration as well as integration between citizens of the third countries is taking place. The majority of the Member States experience the phenomenon of migration and face challenges connected...

This study is an attempt to highlight the financial deepening in Newly Industrialised Economies in Asian region. The Principal Component Analysis technique is employed to get the single dimension of financial deepening. The financial systems of China and Singapore economies have witnessed a...

We examine the tax-growth nexus in Zimbabwe using parametric and non-parametric analysis. We use a two-stage estimation procedure that first generates efficiency scores for the country using a Data Envelopment Approach. We use the efficiency scores in the second stage to normalise growth to get...

New growth theories emerged during 1990s underlined the importance of exploring a link between the disaggregated level of investment and economic growth. We investigate the link between the different forms of investments (equipment, structure and human capital) and real GDP growth in Republic of...

The political and economic changes of the 1990s were followed by major transformations in the structure and volume of Polish foreign trade. Those changes were observed both in geographical and commodity structure of Polish foreign trade, which provides evidence supporting the general thesis that...

Economic transformation in Poland began 18 years ago, so there are a few questions that one should attempt to answer, namely: Has Poland succeeded in maintaining a relatively constant tendency towards changes in main factors characterising economic growth and to what extent? Which kind of...

Considerable socio-economic changes occurred in Poland in the period from 1990 to 2006. Final decisions made by households depended on the influence of many different factors that in turn allowed for determining quantitative and qualitative changes in consumption structure. The assessment of...