During the transition toward a market economy, Poland's outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) was small and limited to trade-supporting activities in key export markets for many years. It took off and started growing rapidly only from 2005, when the Polish private sector had matured enough to...

Good economic performance, one of the best in European Union (EU) countries during the global crisis of 2008-2009 and the subsequent economic slowdown in 2009 and 2010, did not save Poland from experiencing a decline in foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows during 2008-2010. Inflows in 2010,...

Every year, the publication of new data on FDI inflows by international organizations or national central banks is followed by media reports, equating host countries’ FDI performance with the size of inflows, creating the impression that the objective of FDI policy is to attract ever growing...

The objective of the paper is to examine the key contributions of foreign direct investment (FDI) to Poland’s economic development and to identify future challenges and possible ways of coping with them. During the process of transition Poland has achieved considerable progress in economic...