Municipalities of the Poorest and the Richest Voivodship in Poland

Abstract

The contest of an article consist of following comparisions: area, populwtions, occupational activity of inhabitants above all (but mostly) municipality’s budget incomes for the richest voivodship in Poland, which is mazowieckie voivodship and the poorest on which is lubelskie voivodship. Finding the answers for the following queastions were a result of all reaserches which included:

Does differences between the level of the incomes per one inhabitant in both voivodships affect the level of municipality’s budget income in these voivodships?
In which municipalities this proccess is the most visible?
What are the main reasons of those income differences?

All these comparisions above lead us directly to few conclusions:

a) municipalities of both voivodships don’t show such differences when it comes to the level of municipalities budget incomes per one inhabitant. What is more it is also different GDP per capita in those voivodships.
b) the poorest municipalities in both voivodships are rural areas, and level of their municipality’s budget incomes per one inhabitant is similar in both voivodships.
c) the richest municipalities in Mazowieckie and Lubelskie voivodship are urban municipalities anurban – rural – are following. These shows big differences of index of municipality’s budget income per one inhabitant in both voivodships.
d) the differences of income in municipalities are the results of varied occupational activity of inhabitants, conditions on labour market (priviledeget role of capital city) and the differences in level of urbanization.