Poland's peaceful transfer of power is now complete. Something to inspire a few other democracies. #Democracy @ianbremmer

Fun fact: in 2025, #Poland's GDP per capita PPP is projected to reach #Germany's GDP pc from 1990. Catching up is a long slog #convergence. Source: TED, conference-board.org/data/ec…

#Poland is now less corrupt than the #UK accord. to new data from @EurobarometerEU. Who would have thought it possible back in 1989? More on why/how it happened in my book on "Europe's Growth Champion" global.oup.com/academic/prod… ec.europa.eu/commfrontoffice… #corruption

Going into 2020, #Poland and #Australia will enter their 29th year of interrupted economic growth (although #Poland grew much faster, see Figure below), a historical record among high income countries. Only #China can beat them when it becomes high-income by 2023-24 or so:-)

“This is the golden age for the region,” says Marcin Piatkowski, a Polish economist who recently authored a book called Europe’s Growth Champion, about the meteoric rise of Poland’s economy over the past three decades” @guardian @shaunwalker7 theguardian.com/world/2019/o…

#Poland was the fastest growing high/upper-middle income large economy in the world in the last 25 years. For how and why it happened, see my book: global.oup.com/academic/prod…

Fiscal "populism" in #Poland under the PiS government: not exactly what most would expect #debt #fiscal @IMFNews