The population of Pleszew in the years 1751–1793 in the light of birth certificate registers

The text is an attempt at analysing the natural movement of Pleszew’s population in 1751–1793. The research has been based on birth certificate registers as well as city records from the time in question which provide collective information on the demographic phenomena at work.

Динамика численности этнических украинцев в УССР: на основе итогов Всесоюзных переписей населения 1959 г., 1970 г. и 1979 г.

В статье исследованы Всесоюзные переписи населения 1959 г., 1970 г., 1979 г. как основной источник для комплексного изучения динамики численности и территориального размещения украинцев в разных регионах УССР в течение 1960-х – 1970-х гг.; охарактеризовано национальную политику советской власти, которая руководствовалась приоритетом государственного общенационального единства всего «советского народа» и презирала ценность этнической нации. Выяснено, что Украина была одним из центров аккумулирования эмиграционных потоков в Советском Союзе, из-за чего многонациональное общество УССР, основу которого составляли украинцы, постепенно превращалось в двунациональное, где украинское большинство сосуществовало рядом с непрерывно растущим русским меньшинством. Такие переселения проводились прежде всего по политическим соображениям и были направлены на то, чтобы коренной народ терял свои национальные особенности – язык, культуру и тому подобное.

This article measures the level of financial literacy in the rural areas of Vietnam. The financial literacy is usually concerned by financial institutions and government organizations. This is considered to be an indicator that contributes to the assessment of the quality and potential growth of the financial system. In the article the determinants of financial literacy in Vietnam are identified. In result the authors propose a designed financial literacy enhancement programme for implementation.

On November 4, 2021, the draft act on the establishment of the Polish Institute of Family and Demography [Pol. Polski Instytut Rodziny i Demografii – PIRiD] was submitted to the Sejm of the Republic of Poland. The PIRiD is a new institution, the task of which would be to deal with problems connected with the demographic security of Poland and the protection of family. In recent years, during the rule of the Law and Justice party, almost 40 new institutions financed directly or indirectly from the state budget have been established. Not all of them execute all the tasks entrusted to them by the legislator. The case of the PIRiD will help us consider the motives behind the new solutions. In this paper, on the basis of the analysis of texts, I present the course of the debate on the establishment of the Institute and discuss the arguments raised by its participants.

Demographic changes in modern developed and open societies meet the etiological criteria of real and potential phylogenetic threats. The mechanism of species survival developed over the centuries by the quantitative dimension has now been almost completely deconstructed. Naturalistic factors that determine lifestyles and procreative behaviors have undergone a certain erosion, mainly due to gaining significant autonomy from the influence of nature due to the development of biomedicine and the popularization of hygiene habits, but also as a result of social, economic, and widely cultural changes. Nowadays, consumption, cyberspace, new family model and the dominant vectors of self-development have become the source of the demographic crisis, also noticeable in Poland over the last several decades. Therefore, it is necessary to develop new ways of compensating for negative demographic changes, but it is no longer about overcoming the determinants of nature, but the influences of culture modernization. One of the cognitive platforms that deals with the above problems is demographic security. The aim of this article is to diagnose and assess selected demographic threats that determine negative phenomena in the social and economic space of the state, as well as to define demographic security as a cognitive space appropriate for research in the discussed problem areas. The research used theoretical methods, including analysis, synthesis, abstraction, and the empirical method, exegesis of source texts.