WORLD DEVELOPMENT REPORT launched in Poland

Economic integration policies in Poland should aim to reduce the economic distance between leading parts such as Warsaw and the lagging areas in the east. Better labor and land markets facilitate labor mobility and promote economic density, and can help Poland become both spatial efficient and socially inclusive. Greater concentration of economic production can go hand-in-hand with a more inclusive development," says Indermit Gill, Chief Economist for ECA Region of the World Bank

On the 19th of February the Ministry of Regional Development hosted in partnership with the World Bank a conference entitled: "Areas of strategic intervention as a new challenge for regional policy in Poland in the context of recommendations from the World Development Report 2009 – Reshaping Economic Geography and recent reports of the OECD". Thomas Laursen, Country Manager for Poland and the Baltic Countries opened the conference together with Mr. Krzysztof Hetman, Undersecretary of State at the Ministry. ndermit Gill, Chief Economist for Europe and Central Asia Region and Chorching Goh, the WB Senior Economist presented then the main assumptions and highlights of the World Development Report 2009.

This year’s WDR main message is economic growth will be unbalanced, but development still can be inclusive. The report underlines the necessity of special transformation along the 3 dimensions: density, distance and divisions.

PRESENTATIONS

Indermit Gill 

Chorching Goh

For the full version of the WORLD DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2009 please visit its site here