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, their movement over time, and their impact on poverty in the case of Poland. Poland, a middle-income country, is of … environment and the economic growth variables show a relatively sizable degree of variance. In addition, Poland has struggled in … the past few years to reduce poverty while still experiencing positive economic growth. The authors show that in Poland …
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Warsaw, is the heart of the Polish economy. While Poland is weathering the current global economic downturn fairly well, the …
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Poland's economic development story is one of success: since the early 1990s, the country has transitioned to a market …-income trap and increasing the resilience of its economy. Poland has sustained strong growth over the past three decades, making … considerable gap in both productivity and income convergence when compared with aspirational peers. Poland successfully …
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In January 1999, Poland launched a new pension system that was the result of 5-6 years of broad outreach campaigns and … without undermining the long-term viability of the reformed pension system. Post-communist Poland operated on a traditional … and Poland had one of the highest spending rates of any post-communist transition country. In addition, long …
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This paper provides an assessment of the Polish funded pension system and the quality of the regulatory framework for the accumulation phase. There are two elements that distinguish the Polish pension fund portfolios from other reforming countries': the relatively high component of domestic...
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"The authors test competing theories of capital structure choices using firm-level data on firm borrowings. The majority of firms in the dataset are privately owned, young, micro or small and medium enterprise (SME) firms concentrated in the service sector. In general, the financing pattern of...
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"The authors describe and analyze the emergence of river basin management in the Warta River Basin of Poland. The Warta … basin's 55,193 km2 cover approximately one-sixth of Poland, and the Warta is a principal tributary to the Oder. Water … management in Poland have been earnest, but the dispersion of water policy authority across several levels of government, the …
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