Poland : Toward a Strategic, Effective, and Accountable State

The pathway to shared prosperity in Poland is built around growth, inclusion, and sustainability objectives, but success will ultimately depend on a more strategic, effective, and accountable state. Poland has done remarkably well, boasting strong...

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Main Author: World Bank Group
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Language:English
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Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/877211502112969688/Poland-Systematic-Country-Diagnostic-Toward-a-Strategic-Effective-and-Accountable-State
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spelling okr-10986-279962021-05-25T09:02:40Z Poland : Toward a Strategic, Effective, and Accountable State World Bank Group GROWTH POTENTIAL PUBLIC INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT FISCAL POLICY INCLUSIVE GROWTH SUSTAINABILITY PENSIONS WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SHARED PROSPERITY GOVERNANCE PRODUCTIVITY ENVIRONMENTAL TRENDS The pathway to shared prosperity in Poland is built around growth, inclusion, and sustainability objectives, but success will ultimately depend on a more strategic, effective, and accountable state. Poland has done remarkably well, boasting strong growth over three decades. Looking forward, this Systemic Country Diagnostic (SCD) argues that a new level of sophistication is required to meet the challenges of a rapidly aging population and evolving global economy. This includes developing a more strategic, effective, and accountable state that can facilitate a strong consensus around consistent policies to foster growth, inclusion, and sustainability. Continued productivity growth will depend on Poland’s ability to transition to an innovation-led growth model. This transition, in turn, will require improved consistency and commitment to sound policies, as well as improved coordination between the public and private sectors. Demographic trends make it critical for Poland to invest in its people, ensuring that everyone can participate and benefit from growth. To that end, policies must be consistent—both across sectors and between local and national government institutions—such that every person has equal opportunity, participates in the labor market, and is able to move to where they are most productive. To grow sustainably, a new social consensus will be needed to confront difficult trade-offs between the needs of an aging population and the associated fiscal costs. Similarly, Poland will need to weigh the fiscal and economic costs of transitioning to a low-emissions economy against the social and environmental costs associated with business as usual. Consensus will be needed to ensure consistency of policies around agreed-upon principles, commitment to staying the course, coordination across all stakeholders, and cooperation from the private sector based on trust in government. 2017-08-28T15:37:01Z 2017-08-28T15:37:01Z 2017-07-31 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/877211502112969688/Poland-Systematic-Country-Diagnostic-Toward-a-Strategic-Effective-and-Accountable-State http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27996 English en_US Systematic Country Diagnostic; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Systematic Country Diagnostic Europe and Central Asia Poland
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topic GROWTH POTENTIAL
PUBLIC INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT
FISCAL POLICY
INCLUSIVE GROWTH
SUSTAINABILITY
PENSIONS
WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
SHARED PROSPERITY
GOVERNANCE
PRODUCTIVITY
ENVIRONMENTAL TRENDS
spellingShingle GROWTH POTENTIAL
PUBLIC INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT
FISCAL POLICY
INCLUSIVE GROWTH
SUSTAINABILITY
PENSIONS
WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
SHARED PROSPERITY
GOVERNANCE
PRODUCTIVITY
ENVIRONMENTAL TRENDS
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Poland : Toward a Strategic, Effective, and Accountable State
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description The pathway to shared prosperity in Poland is built around growth, inclusion, and sustainability objectives, but success will ultimately depend on a more strategic, effective, and accountable state. Poland has done remarkably well, boasting strong growth over three decades. Looking forward, this Systemic Country Diagnostic (SCD) argues that a new level of sophistication is required to meet the challenges of a rapidly aging population and evolving global economy. This includes developing a more strategic, effective, and accountable state that can facilitate a strong consensus around consistent policies to foster growth, inclusion, and sustainability. Continued productivity growth will depend on Poland’s ability to transition to an innovation-led growth model. This transition, in turn, will require improved consistency and commitment to sound policies, as well as improved coordination between the public and private sectors. Demographic trends make it critical for Poland to invest in its people, ensuring that everyone can participate and benefit from growth. To that end, policies must be consistent—both across sectors and between local and national government institutions—such that every person has equal opportunity, participates in the labor market, and is able to move to where they are most productive. To grow sustainably, a new social consensus will be needed to confront difficult trade-offs between the needs of an aging population and the associated fiscal costs. Similarly, Poland will need to weigh the fiscal and economic costs of transitioning to a low-emissions economy against the social and environmental costs associated with business as usual. Consensus will be needed to ensure consistency of policies around agreed-upon principles, commitment to staying the course, coordination across all stakeholders, and cooperation from the private sector based on trust in government.
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title Poland : Toward a Strategic, Effective, and Accountable State
title_short Poland : Toward a Strategic, Effective, and Accountable State
title_full Poland : Toward a Strategic, Effective, and Accountable State
title_fullStr Poland : Toward a Strategic, Effective, and Accountable State
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