Frydrych, Ludmiła2014-10-262014-10-262014Business and Non-Profit Organizations Facing Increased Competition and Growing Customers' Demands. Ed. by A. Nalepka, A. Ujwary-Gil. Nowy Sącz : WSB-NLU, cop. 2014. – S. 341-357978-83-62550-98-2http://hdl.handle.net/11199/8144The role of the state within the economy, its range and form of activities have long been in the center of disputes on economic theory among many outstanding economists. Different functions and tasks were assigned to the state depending on the economic school of thought and the applied policy. This article deals with the questions of public aid within the economic theory as well as with the non-returnable and returnable instruments of the public aid, it also presents the tendencies in their applications in the financial perspective of 2007-2013 and 2014-2020.enopen accessAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 PolandaidinstrumentsEUfundsbookPart