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KEY
FIGURES
Surface
area: 312 683 km2
Population: 38.6 million (approx.)
The capital: Warsaw (population: 1.7 mil.)
Monetary unit: Polish zloty (PLN) = 100 groszy (gr)
Exchange rate**: PLN per US$ = 4.23
Inflation**: 5.5%
GDP
per capita*: 4 180 US$ (PPP: 8420 US$)
Average monthly wage**: ~ 520 US$ (gross)
Unemployment**: 16.0%
Industrial production (y-o-y change)**: 1.2%
Foreign direct investment flow*: USD 10.6 bn
Investment grade rating: Baa 1 (Moody’s), BBB+ (IBCA),
BBB (S&P)
* Number from 2000
** Number from 08/2001
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Independence
- Poland
has been independent since 1989
President
- Aleksander
Kwasniewski reelected in 2000
Parliament
- Lower House
(Sejm) – 460 members
- Upper House
(Senat) – 100 members
Leading
party
- SLD+UP
(leader: Leszek Miller) – 219 seats in
Parliament (out of 460)
- Platforma
Obywatelska (Tusk, Plazynski,
Olechowski– 12%, 63 seats
- Samoobrona
(Andrzej Lepper) – 10%, 53
seats
- Prawo i
Sprawiedliwosc (Lech Kaczynski)-
9,79%, - 47 seats
- PSL –
(Jaroslaw Kalinowski) 8,76%, 42
seats
- Liga Polskich
Rodzin (Antoni Macierewicz)-
7,67%, 34 seats
- German minority
– 2 seats
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Macroeconomic
indicators
- GDP
– the rate of GDP growth has diminished within the past four
years from an outstanding 7% to 4%; it is to fall down even further
in 2001
- Inflation
– has decreased from 13.5 % in 1997 to 6.1 % in 2000; the
downward trend is predicted to be sustained in 2001 and 2002
- Exchange
rate USD/PLN – 4.23
- Gross foreign
debt – 61.9 US$ bn in 2000
- Foreign
direct investments since 1991 - USD 49.4 billion
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Economic development
In
the last four years of economic development we can see:
- steady increase
of the unemployment rate
- downward
trend of the inflation rate despite its growth in 1999
- diminishing
rate of GDP growth
- stable growth
of the already high (when compared to the other CEE countries)
amount of foreign direct investments attracted
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1998
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1999
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2000
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2001
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| Inflation
(%) |
13,2%
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8,6%
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9,8%
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6,1%
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| GDP
change (%) |
6,9%
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4,8%
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4,1%
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4,1%
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| Unemployment |
10,3%
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10,4%
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13,1%
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15,0%
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| Exchange
rate (PLN/USD) |
3,52
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3,50
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4,15
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4,14
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| Direct
foreign investments (in USD bln) |
6,6
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10,00
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8,3
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10,6
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2010. Szeptember 5.
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