Journal Article

Some comparisons across Central and East European countries in terms the rural population living standard

Vavrejnova, M.,Akademie Ved, Prague (Czech Republic). Ekonomicky Ustav, Luepsik, S.,National Univ. of Ireland, Galway (Ireland)

2007

Overview

In this paper, we describe and compare the employment, wages and prices in the agricultural and other rural sectors in Central and East European countries. We point out the lack of statistical information limiting the possibilities of the comparison. We comment the marked decrease in both production and employment in these sectors during the transition period. Together with low wages and the unfavourable development of the relation between the purchase and producer prices, this situation causes the retardation in the growth of the living standard of the rural population, in comparison with other sectors of the national economy. Therefore, the necessity of restructuring agricultural production arises, and first of all, the multifunctional character of the agriculture and the development of non-agricultural activities must be supported by the rural municipalities. It concerns, of course in different rates, all discussed countries.

• Publisher: Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS),Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences
• Subject: agricultural development / Agricultural economics / agricultural prices / Agricultural production / AGRICULTURAL SECTOR / BULGARIA / BULGARIE / CAZA / Central European region / CHASSE / CHIPRE / CHYPRE / CIENCIAS FORESTALES / CONSUMER PRICES / CYPRUS / CZECH REPUBLIC / ECONOMIA DEL HOGAR / ECONOMIC INDICATORS / ECONOMIC SITUATION / ECONOMIE DOMESTIQUE / EMPLEO / EMPLOI / EMPLOYMENT / ESLOVENIA / ESTONIA / ESTONIE / FORESTERIE / FORESTRY / growth retardation / HOME ECONOMICS / HONGRIE / http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_10672 / http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_1145 / http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_12103 / http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_12204 / http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_15501 / http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_1825 / http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_2080 / http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_2550 / http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_2801 / http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_28674 / http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_3055 / http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_33095 / http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_33096 / http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_34123 / http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_3647 / http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_3695 / http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_3697 / http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_4400 / http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_4548 / http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_6055 / http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_6499 / http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_6637 / http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_6705 / HUNGARY / HUNGRIA / HUNTING / income and price level / INDICADORES ECONOMICOS / INDICATEUR ECONOMIQUE / LATVIA / LETONIA / LETTONIE / LITHUANIA / LITUANIA / LITUANIE / living standard / LIVING STANDARDS / MALTA / MALTE / Municipalities / NIVEAU DE VIE / NIVEL DE VIDA / personal development / POBLACION RURAL / POLAND / POLOGNE / POLONIA / POPULATION RURALE / PRECIO AL CONSUMIDOR / PRIX A LA CONSOMMATION / producer prices / REMUNERATION / REPUBLICA CHECA / REPUBLICA ESLOVACA / REPUBLIQUE SLOVAQUE / REPUBLIQUE TCHEQUE / ROMANIA / ROUMANIE / RUMANIA / Rural areas / RURAL POPULATION / Rural populations / SALARIOS / SECTEUR AGRICOLE / SECTOR AGRARIO / SITUACION ECONOMICA / SITUATION ECONOMIQUE / SLOVAK REPUBLIC / SLOVENIA / SLOVENIE