The “Dobry Czas Na Biznes” (“Good Time for Business”) Program as a Form of Support for Self-Employment in Poland. A Case Study of the Sub-Regions of the Małopolskie Province

Zofia Gródek-Szostak; Marcin Suder; Anna Szeląg-Sikora; Luis Ochoa Siguencia

doi:10.3390/su12229688

The “Dobry Czas Na Biznes” (“Good Time for Business”) Program as a Form of Support for Self-Employment in Poland. A Case Study of the Sub-Regions of the Małopolskie Province

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12229688 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (22) ◽

pp. 9688

Author(s):

Zofia Gródek-Szostak ◽

Marcin Suder ◽

Anna Szeląg-Sikora ◽

Luis Ochoa Siguencia

Keyword(s):

Good Time ◽

Public Agencies ◽

Place Of Residence ◽

Public Intervention ◽

Program Participant ◽

Basic Assumptions ◽

Self Employment ◽

Market Status ◽

The Impact

The main goal of public intervention is to amend market imperfections. However, public agencies may also have other goals in supporting entrepreneurship and promotion of self-employment. The aim of the paper is to analyze the impact of the funding granted by the Małopolska Agency for Regional Development (Małopolska Agencja Rozwoju Regionalnego SA, MARR S.A.) dedicated to beneficiaries from the Tarnow subregion and the Krakow Metropolitan Area. The research goals were defined as follows: (1) To verify if the basic assumptions of the program are correct and to demonstrate that it is an important element motivating the professionally inactive to take up employment as sole entrepreneur. (2) To verify if the program participant structure (both applicants and beneficiaries), with subdivision into place of residence, gender, age and the labor market status, is correct. (3) To verify if the abovementioned variables (gender, age, place of residence) significantly differentiate the applicants’ chance of obtaining a grant. The results are of key importance and should be used in formulating assumptions, regulations and guidelines for subsequent program editions. Due to the demonstrated diversity of the target group in the respective regions, it should be decided whether to differentiate the criteria for participation in the project depending on the region.

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KHF Entrepreneurship Support and the Impact of COVID-19 on Jordanian Entrepreneurs

10.21201/2021.7895 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Lami Raei

Keyword(s):

Young People ◽

Financial Support ◽

Youth Participation ◽

Community Based ◽

Community Based Organizations ◽

Self Employment ◽

Start Ups ◽

The Impact

The King Hussein Foundation (KHF) partners with Oxfam in the Youth Participation and Employment programme (YPE) to promote entrepreneurship through supporting youth to engage in business start-ups and scale-ups. KHF projects support community-based organizations (CBOs) in establishing revolving funds, training CBOs in microfinance management and building the capacity of potential entrepreneurs. Apprenticeships and shadowing are two examples of popular approaches to facilitating entrepreneurship and self-employment. During the COVID-19 crisis, KHF has continued the implementation of activities virtually. This case study presents examples of young people utilizing financial support, reaching out to new clients using ICT, and eventually exploring ways to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19.

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Employment Creation through Credit: A Glimpse from Credit Program for Ultra-poor Households in Bangladesh

European Journal of Business Management and Research ◽

10.24018/ejbmr.2021.6.6.1166 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 6 (6) ◽

pp. 139-148

Author(s):

Md. Abdul Khaleque ◽

Mehadi Hasan ◽

Farah Muneer

Keyword(s):

Descriptive Analysis ◽

Program Participation ◽

Explanatory Variables ◽

Program Participant ◽

Credit Program ◽

Self Employment ◽

Poor Households ◽

Wage Employment ◽

Northwest Region ◽

The Impact

This paper examined the impact on employment of a credit plus program designed for ultra-poor households in the Northwest region of Bangladesh. Both descriptive and econometric techniques were used, and four regression models were estimated for each of the dependent variables with linear and log-lin specifications: one is a simple model considering only time effect and program effect, and the others were the extended models which included various characteristics of the households and the regions. The descriptive analysis showed that most of the beneficiary households had shifted from single earning members to multiple earning members. Women had started to contribute to household earnings. The results showed that the participant ultra-poor households had gained around 21.1% additional employment days due to the program participation opportunities within 2008-2013, with an annual rate of 4.2% gain. The extra earning days included wage-employment days and self-employment days and the results showed that due to the program, the wage-employment days had increased by 2.6% annually and the self-employment days increased by 6.6% annually holding the effects of other explanatory variables constant. The working days of non-participants had increased but at a lower rate than that of the program participant households. The results confirmed that the credit program for ultra-poor households had a significantly positive effect on the creation of employment days and employment opportunities.

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Identification and Analysis of Structural Fund Support Mitigating the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the EU—A Case Study of Health Unit Funding

Energies ◽

10.3390/en14164976 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (16) ◽

pp. 4976

Author(s):

Karina Bedrunka ◽

Łukasz Mach ◽

Anna Kuczuk ◽

Anna Bohdan

Keyword(s):

Research Process ◽

Theoretical Background ◽

Point Of View ◽

Structural Fund ◽

Public Intervention ◽

Development Fund ◽

Eu Member States ◽

The Impact ◽

The Eu

The research carried out describes the provision of COVID-19 funding in individual EU Member States under the ongoing operational programmes of the EU financial perspective in the period 2014–2020. This was followed by identification of the most important areas of support and the amounts allocated to them for Poland and its sixteen voivodeships under the available EU funds from the 2014–2020 perspective. Types and forms of support for health services from the funds of the Regional Operational Programme for the Opolskie Voivodeship 2014–2020 (ROP WO) were analysed in detail. The obtained results showed that Italy, Spain, and Poland provided the largest values of support under the available operational programmes from 2014–2020 to combat the effects of COVID-19. In Poland, funding was mainly provided by the European Regional Development Fund, with the dominant support allocated to entrepreneurship and health care. In the Opolskie voivodeship, which is the case study, the additional financing in the health area concerns: personal protective equipment, equipment, construction works, oxygen installations, and waste water management. In this article, a literature analysis of the issue was conducted prior to the research process, which included theories of post-2007 crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic. The focus is on the theoretical background and research showing the impact of crises from the point of view of social, economic, and ecological dimensions, i.e., from the point of view of sustainable development. It also presents planned and implemented public intervention to offset the negative effects of COVID-19 in 2020 from structural funds in EU countries, including Poland and its 16 voivodeships.

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Fear of crime determinants. Empirical case study of Poland

100-lecie polskiej Policji - Studia Politologiczne ◽

10.33896/spolit.2021.61.12 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 231-246

Author(s):

Daniel Mider

Keyword(s):

Fear Of Crime ◽

Religious Orientation ◽

Place Of Residence ◽

Negative Attitudes ◽

State Institutions ◽

Suicide Rates ◽

Factors Influencing ◽

Analysis Technique ◽

The Impact

The study explains the nature and strength of the influence of the determinants of fear of crime. According to other studies gender, age, education, place of residence, material status, worldview and religious orientation, victimization influence the level of fear of crime. In order to verify the impact of these factors, the CATREG analysis technique was used. Variables such as the level of anomie, crime, unemployment and suicide rates were introduced, as an original author’s concept. A model of factors influencing fear of crime was created. The most important element of it turned out to be prior victimization, as well as – to a lesser extent – negative attitudes towards state institutions that are to ensure safety and the occupation.

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Effect of GIS parameters on modelling runoff from river basin. The case study of catchment in the Puck District

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/20186300005 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 63 ◽

pp. 00005 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Dominika Kalinowska ◽

Paweł Wielgat ◽

Tomasz Kolerski ◽

Piotr Zima

Keyword(s):

Model Resolution ◽

Basic Assumptions ◽

National Centre ◽

Digital Elevation ◽

Elevation Model ◽

The Impact ◽

Digital Elevation Model Resolution ◽

Puck Bay

The study was preceded to check the impact of the adopted digital elevation model resolution on the determination of catchment parameters and the further influence of the received information on calculations related to the hydrograph at the closing point of the basin after a synthetic 100-year precipitation episode. The study area are river basins located in the Puck commune convoying water directly to the Puck Bay. These studies allowed the formulation of the basic assumptions for the research project (in short called WaterPuck) supported by the National Centre for Research and Development.

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