Abstract
In the 1990s a major change took place in the ownership structure in the Polish economy, with a dramatic shift towards the private sector. The following article examines the different ways in which privatisation has taken place, the penetration of foreign capital into the Polish economy and the role which foreign direct investment has played in the transformation process.
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The author is an expert of the Goansk Institute for Market Economics; she would like to thank Catherine Lockhead-Strzępka, Institute of Economics at the University of Information Technology in Rzeszów, for corrections to the English translation.
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Wojnicka, E. Foreign direct investment in the privatisation of the Polish economy. Intereconomics 36, 305–314 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02930148
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02930148