Polish GDP to grow 0.3% this year: IMF

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) expects Poland's economy to expand by 0.3 percent in 2023, its staff announced at the end of a recent visit to the country.

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“The main policy challenge is to lower inflation back to the target without unduly weakening the economy,” the IMF wrote in its mission concluding statement.

“We project inflation [in Poland] to fall from 16.6 percent at end-2022 to 7.2 percent at end-2023,” said Jan Kees Martijn, the head of the IMF mission to Poland.

Michał Owczarek reports...

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