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| Making Polish roads safer for all
Poland's hazardous roads and traffic casualties cost the country US$9 billion a year. A road safety program is trying to upgrade infrastructure and modify driving habits.
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| | | | | | Orchestrating a rural revival
What's to show for the Bank's $120 million loan? A look at the results of Poland's Rural Development Project yields answers: better governance, schools, off-farm businesses, +22,000 jobs. Full Story... | | | | |
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| Speeding agricultural goods to market
These days Piotr Mazewski, a farmer from Kalinowska in eastern Poland, breathes a sigh of relief whenever he takes his goods to market in Warsaw - some 160 kilometers away.
Thanks to rapid improvements in Poland's infamously inadequate road system, over an hour has been saved in his travel time. Such gains can make the difference between profit and loss in Poland's highly competitive agricultural sector, which employs a quarter of the country's population. Full Story...
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| | | | | | Bringing clean air and cheap energy to Poland
Dr. Piotr Dlugosz has long waited for the day when the people of Zakopane, Poland switched from burning coal or wood in their antiquated heating systems to using clean and cheap geothermal energy.
Now the day is finally here. "Thanks to geothermal heating made possible by the World Bank's project, Zakopane is the only ski resort in Europe, if not the world, where most hotels and homes use renewable energy," he says. Full Story... | | | | |
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