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Six Ideas for Poland

Poland is a developed country. But it can still get richer.

Warsaw has its (reconstructed) Old Town and winding bike paths, but the communists who rebuilt it after World War II gave much of the central city an “urban jungle” feeling not entirely different from what you might find in, say, South Korea. Poland thus has a chance to make Warsaw into the kind of modern megalopolis that draws people to East Asian countries — a refreshing and unique alternative to European cities’ typical fare of old-towns and castles and scattered malls. “Only then will these states be able to catch up with Western Europe in terms of productivity and living standards,” said Zuzana Zavarská, an economist at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw) and co-author of the report …“Taiwan and South Korea have shown how effective a well-designed strategic industrial policy can be.”

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