Determinanty dochodów własnych w budżetach kurczących się miast Polski w kontekście lokalnego rozwoju społeczno-gospodarczego

The aim of the article is to identify the determinants affecting own-source revenues in shrinking Polish cities in the context of local socio-economic development. The first section describes the research problem in Polish and foreign literature and focuses on explaining the relationship between own-source revenues and socio-economic development in a specific group of shrinking cities. The next section defines the research method and the scope of the research. The last part presents the results of the research which indicated that in the field of local socio-economic development the most important factors affecting own-source revenues of shrinking cities in Poland are factors related to entrepreneurship and the labour market. The whole article ends with a summary, which synthesises the results of the research and the presented literature, as well as identifies the areas that may pose a potential challenge for the authorities of shrinking cities in Poland in the context of increasing the share of own-source revenues in the total incomes of their budgets.