This monograph was prepared under the Multi-Annual Programme 2015-2019 “The Polish and the EU agricultures 2020+. Challenges, chances, threats, proposals”.

The main objective of this monograph is to identify theoretical and methodological foundations for measuring, assessing and optimising public aid granted to farms (at the level of EU countries and individual farms in Poland), along with an attempt of empirical verification. The auxiliary objective of the monograph is to update the ex-post analysis of the impact of subsidies on the economic, income and financial situation of these entities.

Publication date: 09.09.2019