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The OECD unemployment rate is stable at around 6% appears in Society at a Glance 2008: OECD Social Indicators.
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There is a significant local dimension to small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) and entrepreneurship policy in Poland, reflecting the need to respond to significant regional disparities in incomes and employment opportunities. This can be done by ...
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With almost 50 per cent of the working age population not working, improving labour market performance represents an essential and daunting challenge for Poland. While some of today’s joblessness is cyclical in nature, most of it appears to be...
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Increasing the share of vocational secondary schooling has been a mainstay of development policy for decades, especially in formerly socialist countries. However, the transition to market economies led to significant restructuring of school systems...
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This paper reviews the performance of Polish health care system from an economic perspective. High on the reform agenda of the government for several years, a new national health insurance system entered into force on 1 January 1999. This reform...
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Public-private partnerships (PPPs) bringing together local authorities, the financial sector and non-profit organisations to optimise financing schemes are efficient ways to foster entrepreneurship locally. PPPs provide support mechanisms that are ...
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Poland acceded to the European Union on 1 May 2004, following 15 years of economic and political transition. Its achievements over this period are many, both on the legal/institutional and economic fronts. In addition to the EU, it has gained ...
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Following many years of underinvestment, renovating and building new transport infrastructure is an important policy priority that would increase labour mobility and improve Poland’s competitiveness. This goal is all the more feasible given that the...
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Until very recently Poland was still reaping the benefits of a robust economic growth, at an annual rate exceeding 4% since 2003. The overall situation on the labour market has thus improved dramatically compared with the early 2000s. In aggregate ...
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In 2016 the Polish government introduced a large new child benefit, called “Family 500+”, with the aim to increase fertility from a low level and reduce child poverty. The benefit is universal for the second and every further child and means-tested...
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