The influence of the Ukrainian and Polish population’s cultural activity on their economic development

Abstract

Creative sector is considered to be an impetus for the progress and, at the same time, an indicator of the potential of national economic development. The problem of determining the character of the creative economy influence both on performance results of individual business entities and on economic development rates of countries on the whole is of current importance. The purpose of this paper is to show a relation between cultural activity of population and development of national economy on the basis of the comparative analysis of statistical indices of Ukraine and Poland. The six dimensions model of national culture by Professor Geert Hofstede, Gert Jan Hofstede, Michael Minkov was used for determination position of the Ukrainian culture on the way of transformations of state planned economy. The Ukrainian and Polish population’s cultural activity features were defined and linked to the GDP dynamics. Calculations of correlation coefficients allow to rather accurately predict a degree of cultural dependence on economic results of a country. Results of the comparative analysis were presented by formulas for each of the analyzed countries. Article carries out the comparative analysis of the spending patterns of EU, Poland and Ukraine and defines the character and structural dynamics of the culture expenses.