Abstract
The rate of economic growth in Poland is regionally variable. The present regional economic ranking is not simply a reproduction of the positions held under central planning. There are even cases of strong inversion in the rankings. Older traditions of enterprise and participation in higher education have proved stronger factors in development than the level of investment inherited from state socialism. The authors explore the different strands of agricultural transformation, and of industrial change, which is even more spatially diversified, and more open to the impact of internationalization. They emphasize the links between regions and foreign markets, a relationship which has been neglected by most researchers.
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