Redistribution or Development? The Budget Policy of Local Communities from Zachodniopomorskie Voivodship Cover Image

Redystrybucja czy rozwój? Polityka budżetowa gmin województwa zachodniopomorskiego
Redistribution or Development? The Budget Policy of Local Communities from Zachodniopomorskie Voivodship

Author(s): Ryszard Czyszkiewicz
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: EUROREG - Uniwersytet Warszawski, Regional Studies Association - Sekcja Polska
Keywords: local communities; local budgets; regional politics; local politics; social politics; budget redistribution

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the expenses of local communities in zachodniopomorskie voivodship during the 2000–2005 period, with special regard to capital expenditures and to social care expenditures. Local communities conduct counterbalanced expenditures policy adapted accordingly to incomes. Whereas capital expenditures vary in time with growing tendency to diminishing, the social care expenses continually grow (in analyzed tenure). In spite of this the numbers of people taking advantage of social help diminishing very little (and even growing from time to time). What is more, as can be presumed, the social funds are constantly directed to the same group of beneficiaries without gaining the results in limiting the scale of poverty in community.

  • Issue Year: 8/2007
  • Issue No: 29
  • Page Range: 71-89
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Polish