Przekształcenia struktur gospodarki regionu podkarpackiego. Procesy metropolizacji, procesy globalizacji

Abstract

The aim of the article is to describe the process of transforming the structure of the economy of Podakrpacie under the influence of metropolisation processes. The region is presented in the view of processes that are changing eastern Poland. Eastern Poland is socially and economically distinct, its specificity requires that special actions are undertaken to eliminate the discrepancies between the region and the rest of the country. The regions of the eastern Poland have the lowest entrepreneurship indicators in the country, and the lowest one is in the Podkarpacie Voivodeship. Synthetic indicator of the potential and strength of the economy GDP per citizen show that the region is economically the weakest. Eastern regions have a defective agrarian structure – high employment rate in agriculture and low marketability of products. The worst situation is in Podkarpacie where 7,4% off all people employed in agriculture work and the value of purchase of agricultural products expressed as grain units is lower than in the rest of Poland. The article presents a thesis that the development of big cities in the east of the country could be an impulse of economic growth of the region. It is necessary to invest in the factors of regional growth, namely building the infrastructure (motorways, fast highways, railway), to create conditions for the development of knowledge-based economy, to invest in human resources and social capital.