This Country Focus discusses the relation between public investment and economic growth in Poland. Theoretical and … empirical work has shown that improvements in the quantity and quality of public infrastructure have a positive impact on growth … higher public investment stimulates growth in Poland. In recent years, a significant effort has already been made to increase …

Following several years of low growth Germany is presently enjoying a relatively strong recovery. With unemployment … recovery or whether it heralds a return to higher potential growth from the estimated level of slightly above 1% in the first … half of this decade. In recent years three developments have taken place that may have helped lift potential growth. These …

focus analyses the development of the financial sector including its impact on economic growth. While the sector has … advanced considerably in scale and efficiency, there is clear room for further development to support future growth. …

growth and revenue growth appears to be lower in Poland than in many other EU Member States, which suggests that the …

Estonia's accession to the EU in 2005 led to a period of above-potential growth, fostered by expansionary monetary …, while productivity growth in these sectors was declining. In contrast, manufacturing registered high total factor … productivity (TFP) growth, while resources directed at this subsector were declining in relative terms. This relative misallocation …

other emerging and mature economies, with Polish growth notably more volatile and government expenditure highly erratic …. The available data on GDP growth suggest that the Polish economy is approaching the peak of the second business cycle …