It thinks emigration will boost the Polish economy because many will not live in Germany permanently.
It has been very important in modernising the Polish economy, but remains relatively low.
It was harsh medicine, but the Polish economy recovered faster than more gradual reformers in the old Soviet bloc.
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Shockingly, this has made the Polish economy more resilient than the economies of countries that embraced tight money and austerity.
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The Polish economy would probably slow, but it should not be a "deep" slowdown, he told the daily Gazeta Prawna.
And the Polish economy has continued to churn along while most of its neighbors have either crashed and burned or simply stagnated.
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But central bank policymaker Halina Wasilewska-Trenkner said Tuesday that she did not expect a significant slowdown in the Polish economy and that the bank should not delay a rate hike to help counter inflation.
The European Central Bank and the Czech National Bank have what Poland refers to as ultralow rates, near zero, which aren't appropriate for the Polish economy because they would create boom-and-bust cycles and investment bubbles, Mr. Belka said earlier.
The ECD, co-chaired by the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Polish Ministry of Economy, last met at an experts-level in Warsaw, Poland in April 2011.
The Department of Commerce and the Polish Ministry of Economy will organize the roundtable event, which will include participation by other U.S. Government agencies and Polish Ministries and organizations.
The BBC's David Willey says that Polish Catholicism has clearly become more diluted under democratic government and a free market economy, and official church statistics reveal that only 10% of Polish believers fully identify with church teaching.
The Polish currency is likely to rise further due to Poland's relatively sound economy, the inflow of foreign funds, and the market continuing to expect more cuts to borrowing costs than the central bank is ready to deliver, said Nomura economist Peter Attard Montalto.
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