IMF Staff Country Reports

Republic of Poland: Selected Issues

July 26, 2004

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Summary

This Selected Issues paper analyzes the main factors underlying the evolution of competitiveness, export performance, and labor market developments in Poland. The paper seeks to identify key questions of relevance for policymaking. The overall evolution of competitiveness compared with Poland’s trading partners and competitors since 1995 is analyzed using standard measures of the real effective exchange rate (REER). This paper also examines the role of foreign investors in financing domestically issued public debt in Poland.

Subject: Consumer prices, Domestic debt, Exchange rates, Foreign exchange, Inflation, Prices, Producer prices, Public debt

Keywords: Africa, Asia and Pacific, Consumer prices, CR, Domestic debt, Eastern Europe, Europe, Exchange rates, High-volatility period, High-volatility regime, Inflation, Investor, ISCR, Issued debt, Low-volatility regime, North America, Producer prices, T-bond, T-bond issue, Volatility

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    65

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2004/218

  • Stock No:

    1POLEA0022004

  • ISBN:

    9781451831924

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685

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