Unification of Europe through development and enlargement of the European Union is a great political success. Poland is also joining the EU hoping to accelerate development. Although this enlargement signifies new investment opportunities in Europe and it will create the largest internal market...

1) The negotiated terms of Poland's accession to the EU oblige us to accede to the EMU too. However, they do not predetermine the date of our EMU entry. In this paper, four most probable, in the author' opinion, scenarios of our accession to the EMU were presented. Scenario A assumes accession...

There is large evidence on a positive impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) on economic growth and productivity in a number of developed countries in the 1990’s. There are however no studies, which would estimate the contribution of ICT to growth and productivity in...

Following up on a previous paper by the same author on the contribution of ICT capital to growth and labor productivity in Poland 1995-2000, this paper extends the study to eight transition economies: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Slovakia and Slovenia. The paper shows that...

Fifteen years ago, on April 5, 1989, after two months’ negotiations between the coalition government and the Solidarity-led opposition, the Round Table agreements set in motion the transformation process. Today, Poland is on the eve of a landmark event – the accession to the European Union,...

There are good reasons to assume that in the longer term Poland's economic growth will be unimpressive at best. This pessimistic judgement, however, does not reflect a sceptical evaluation of Poland's potential, but rather an evaluation of the merits of the current international economic order....

When it seems that everything or nearly everything has been said about the prerequisites and prospects of economic growth – in the Polish context, too (Kolodko 2002b and 2002c; Noga 2004) – it is worthwhile to revisit certain aspects of this phenomenon, which is of vital importance for the...

Having joint the European Union, Poland, as one of the poorest member state, hopes for a significant financial support. Indeed the policy of catching up of less developed regions of the UE seems to be important element of the integration process. In addition to the cohesion fund, Poland can...