POLAND ECONOMIC GROWTH CONTINUES, DESPITE GOVERNMENT’S SHARP CHANGES IN SPENDING POLICIES
April 1st, 2017
For nearly 10 years now, Poland has been Europe’s most surprising economic growth story. It even avoided recession during the 2009 financial crisis, and its gross domestic product (GDP) has continued to rise since, increasing by 2.8% in 2016. Unemployment has been dropping steadily since 2013, reaching 8.5% in February 2017 – lower than pre-crisis levels.
That Poland has continued to do well since late 2015, when it elected a government that had campaigned on nationalist and populist rhetoric, has shocked some observers. The Law and Justice party, had ...
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