. For the four countries that are members of the OECD (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovak Republic), accession …

This chapter analyzes the sources of Poland's unprecedented economic performance after 1989, when Poland became Europe …'s and the world's growth champion. I argue that this growth miracle was driven by five fundamental factors, including Poland …’s accession to the European Union. All five factors were critically important, but without accession to the EU, Poland's economic …