Poland is now among the 20 largest economies. How it happened

Re:Poland is now among the 20 largest economies. How it happ... by mazurnification on Friday May 08, 2026 @09:30AM (#48062861)

Yes - main benefit of EU is regulatory stabilization and open market. Ironically also this was working also before joining EU (most of the adjustment happening as requirement to join EU and implemented before joining).

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Re:Poland is now among the 20 largest economies. How it happ... by PunchyHamster on Friday May 08, 2026 @11:49AM (#48064823)

A lot of it also was behind a requirement to basically "fix your shit".

You could get the money but you had to get bureaucracy to be right and transparent to cut down on fraud, and that helped the rest of the govt to have less fraud.

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Re:Poland is now among the 20 largest economies. How it happ... by lo_zamoyski on Friday May 08, 2026 @09:48AM (#48063107)

Much of the stabilization was due to the strong domestic market. Recall that Poland was the only country to avoid the 2008/2009 recession. It is tight global integration that causes recessions to spread.

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Re:Poland is now among the 20 largest economies. How it happ... by airstrike on Friday May 08, 2026 @10:07AM (#48063418)

Brazil also famously avoided the 2008-09 recession to a great extent, to name one example.

Tight global integration is not a bad thing. Even if we took at face value your argument that a strong domestic market protected Poland in that case, you can't cherry pick the one instance in which lower-than-expected integration was beneficial without also considering all the other times in which it was harmful.

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Re:Poland is now among the 20 largest economies. How it happ... by lo_zamoyski on Friday May 08, 2026 @02:29PM (#48066945)

But this was largely the particular cause in this case... The strong domestic market insulated the economy from international economic shocks.

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Re:Poland is now among the 20 largest economies. How it happ... by airstrike on Friday May 08, 2026 @03:33PM (#48067666)

The US also has a very strong domestic market and yet it was not "insulated"

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Re:Poland is now among the 20 largest economies. How it happ... by lo_zamoyski on Friday May 08, 2026 @04:37PM (#48068486)

That's because the shocks came from the domestic US market!

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Re:Poland is now among the 20 largest economies. How it happ... by scotty79 on Saturday May 09, 2026 @04:19AM (#48073077)

Poland's growth does well when everyone is in the dip. Even in 2020 crisis Poland dipped less than other. Although the difference was less that time. 8 years of populist rule did harm Poland a bit.

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