SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL AREAS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION MEMBER STATES IN 2000-2012

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Mariana Vashchyk
Tomasz Siudek


Keywords : social development, factor analysis, European Union, rural area
Abstract
The purpose of research is to analyze selected social indicators of rural sustainable development in the EU Member States in 2000-2012, and to determine their main tendencies. To describe those tendencies and changes that took place in rural areas, the factor analysis has been implemented. Three main factors have been worked out to determine the synthetic index (SI) of social development of rural areas of the EU Member States. It enabled the authors to affirm that the leading EU countries in terms of social development are Luxemburg, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium and Sweden, those among the least developed are the countries, which joined the EU after two last waves of its enlargement, namely Croatia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Romania. The main reasons for such a differentiation are the quality of rural life related problems: rural poverty due to low incomes, great dependence on agriculture, depopulation, poor infrastructure etc.

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Vashchyk, M., & Siudek, T. (2015). SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL AREAS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION MEMBER STATES IN 2000-2012. Annals of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, 102(1), 7–17. https://doi.org/10.22630/RNR.2015.102.1.1
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