Przestrzenne zróżnicowanie rozwoju ekonomicznego powiatów województwa małopolskiego

The aim of this paper is to present the local diversification of the economic development of counties in Malopolskie voivodship between 2002 and 2008 year. Authors used a set of stimulants (total sold production of industry per capita, gross value of fixed assets per capita, investment per capita and wages) and one destimulant (unemployment rate) to estimate the economic development taxonomic indicators of 22 counties in Malopolska. The results proved that Cracow and Tarnow had the highest values of the indicator. Not too far behind them were the following counties: chrzanowski, olkuski i oświęcimski oraz Nowy Sącz. Contrary to this, the lowest values of the development indicator could be observed in: proszowicki, miechowski, dąbrowski and tarnowski counties.