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 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...

This paper presents major challenges for Poland's fiscal policy and strategic choices which have to be made in the area of economic policy in Poland's nearest future. The space to manoeuvre in Polish fiscal policy is very narrow. The most important constraint is not the formal one (Polish...

The paper presents evolution of the Polish fiscal system from the very beginning of Poland's transformation. Effective management of the public funds is crucial for sustaining macroeconomic stability and using public money for financing pro-growth activities. The goal of fiscal reforms, which...

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...

In a simple growth model we explore the current and future growth effects of the regional population structure. Regional GDP growth in 227 regions within six countries in central Europe is explored as how they depend on the young and old dependency ratio. The young dependency ratio (YDR) is...