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Poland makes one more rate cut as economy hints at recovery

Poland’s central bank on Wednesday cut its benchmark interest rate by a quarter point to a record low of 2.5 per cent, in what most analysts feel is the end of the bank’s loosening cycle as the economy...

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Guest post: don’t write Poland off

By Nicholas Spiro and Radosław Bodys In a sign of the breadth and depth of Europe’s economic crisis, Poland, once the continent’s star performer, is going through one of its roughest patches since the...

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Poland suspends its budget law in favour of fiscal stimulus

Buffeted by a slowing economy, Poland’s government on Tuesday said it would allow its budget deficit to rise sharply and temporarily suspend legal limits on public debt in order not to throttle what...

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Poland’s economy: more signs of life

Is Poland’s sluggish economy on the road to recovery? There were further signs that it might be on Tuesday, as retail sales in June showed a bigger than expected expansion of 1.8 per cent compared with...

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Poland’s Tusk: “no stagnation, no recession”

Poland’s economic slump is over – that’s the word from Donald Tusk on Tuesday at an annual economic forum in the Polish mountain resort town of Krynica, announcing the start of an economic rebound that...

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Poland overhauls pension funds to clear public debt

With its back pressed against the fiscal wall by an unexpectedly sharp economic slowdown, Poland’s government on Wednesday took an axe to part of the country’s pension system in a bid to bolster public...

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Poland: Tusk’s message of optimism falls on deaf ears

Polish premier Donald Tusk recently announced that Poland’s economic slump was over and predicted a return to faster growth, but that message doesn’t seem to have got through to the thousands of angry...

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Poland: steady on the rates as recovery begins

No surprise from the National Bank of Poland’s rate-setting Monetary Policy Council on Wednesday after it decided not to budge from the current record low benchmark of 2.5 per cent. With signs that the...

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Poland: at the dawn of a golden age?

Most people looking at a global economy buffeted by five years of crises and turmoil would be loath to call this a “Golden Age”. But that is just what Poland is experiencing, according to a new World...

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Poland: production back on the up

Poland’s economic recovery is gathering steam, with new industrial production numbers showing that growth in central Europe’s largest country is picking up sharply. September’s industrial production...

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Poland’s recovery: still on track?

The numbers are not head-turners, but the latest retail sales data out of Poland show the country continuing a steady, if unspectacular, economic revival – which means continued support for current low...

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Guest post: the real meaning of Poland’s pension reform

By Jan Krzysztof Bielecki In a famous joke from the communist era, a listenersends in a question to a Soviet radio station: “Is it true that cars are being given out for free on Moscow’s Red Square?”....

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Poland reverting to right kind of growth

The strong showing by Poland’s economy in the third quarter of this year includes encouraging news for Poland bulls: domestic demand is an increasingly important factor in an economy that has been...

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Poland: low inflation puts halt on any thoughts of rate hike

Poland’s central bank has already indicated that there is not much chance of it increasing record-low interest rates before mid-2014, and Friday’s unexpectedly low inflation readout will do little to...

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Poland: stronger growth no help to zloty

Poland’s economy turned in an unexpectedly strong performance last year, growing by 1.6 per cent according to data released Thursday, but that did not stop the zloty from losing strength against the...

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Emerging Europe turns EM growth star in Q1

Economic growth in emerging Europe surged in the first quarter as Germany’s dynamism drove manufacturing output and fears of that the Ukraine crisis would exert a damping did not materialise, data...

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Guest post: Poland should be a source of inspiration

By Marcin Piatkowski of the World Bank Today, Poland is celebrating the 25th anniversary of elections that ushered in a new Solidarity-led government, the first democratic government behind the Iron...

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Guest post: which EMs are vulnerable to US dollar strength?

By Tim Ash, Standard Bank It has been easy in recent weeks to get carried away with big emerging market (EM) currency movements. A range of them – including the Russian rouble, Turkish lira, Polish...

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Sanctions on Russia: the all-round impact

“Sanctions are like exposure to radioactive materials,” says Stanislaw Secrieru, an analyst at the Polish Institute for International Affairs (PISM). “The longer Russia is exposed to them, the stronger...

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Guest post: how can Poland shift from making potato chips to microchips?

By Marcin Piatkowski and Natasha Kapil, World Bank Poland is Europe’s growth champion. It has more than doubled its GDP per capita since the beginning of the post-socialist transition in 1989,...

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