ECONOMIC-BEHAVIOR OF RURAL FAMILY HOUSEHO LDS IN EUROPE

This report briefly summarises contributions made to an international symposium held in 1993 in Bonn on the,,Economic Behaviour of (Rural) F amily Households''. Family households were shown to be highly adaptabl e to different and constantly evolving contextual frameworks. Househol ds rely on complex relationships with the state, with private enterpri ses, and their social networks in developing strategies for acquiring and allocating resources. Better knowledge about these decision-making processes is indispensable for the formulation of effective social, e conomic, and regional development policies. Contributions to the sympo sium presented diverse concepts, definitions, and typologies which-app lied in empirical investigations - produced very interesting facts and figures on behavioural patterns of survey households.