Kierunki inwestowania gmin w Polsce w latach 2008-2012

The main purpose of the paper was assessment of the scale of changes in investment expenditures born by local communes considering directions of investments (classification aligned with the classes used for central budget purposes). The research spanned on the period of 2008-2012 being the years of global financial crisis and economic slowdown. The analyses were based on data delivered by RIO and GUS separately for urban, urban-rural and rural communes. The authors measured moreover the similarity between investment share structures for pairs of consecutive years. The assessment of structural changes followed the analysis of share in expenditures on particular classes of economy in total investment expenditures.