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Rafal Trzeciakowski
About Rafal Trzeciakowski
Economist at the Civil Development Forum (FOR) and a PhD candidate in the Deparment of International Comparative Studies at the Warsaw School of Economics. His research interests focus around fiscal decentralization.
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Economy

Polish Government’s Demographic Strategy 2040 Will Not Help with Demographic Crisis

Rafal Trzeciakowski and FOR/October 19, 2021 /Leave a comment

The cost of the state’s family policy reached PLN 70 billion in 2020. By comparison, spending on countering the COVID-19 pandemic and mitigating the effects of the economic lockdown amounted to PLN 103 billion, and spending on defense amounted to PLN 42 billion.

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Economy

“Polish Deal” Takes Tax Hit on Apartment Rentals

Rafal Trzeciakowski and FOR/October 14, 2021October 14, 2021 /Leave a comment

Within the framework of the “Polish Deal”, PiS is raising the tax burden on income from rental housing drastically and without a transition period. In this way, the government wants to slow down the growth of property prices and, at the same time, increase budget revenues. This is a wrong direction.

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Economy

Single Market, Rule of Law More Important for Poland’s Development Than EU Funds

Rafal Trzeciakowski and FOR/December 1, 2020 /Leave a comment

Poland’s benefits from access to the Single Market are five times higher than from subsidies from the EU budget. In 2019 we received net transfers of EUR 11 billion from the EU budget. But, thanks to access to the European Single Market, Poland’s GDP was 56 billion euros higher.

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Economy

More Flexibility in Regulating Working Time Needed in Poland

Rafal Trzeciakowski and FOR/January 28, 2020January 28, 2020 /Leave a comment

Many labor market regulations were created with large mid-20th century manufacturing plants in mind – which is the spirit of the Polish Labor Code of 1974. However, along with the process of industrial automation as well as the growth of employment in services, the economic reality has changed.

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Society

Forced Deglomeration in Poland: Unconvincing Government’s Report

Rafal Trzeciakowski and FOR/October 22, 2019 /Leave a comment

In July 2019, the Polish Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Technology published its report regarding transfer of central public administration offices from Warsaw to smaller cities – interchangeably referred to as deglomeration or delocalization – an idea popular in the Law and Justice’s government circles.

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Economy

Poland’s Independence and Standard of Living in Poland

Rafal Trzeciakowski and FOR/December 4, 2018December 4, 2018 /Leave a comment

100 years ago, Poland regained independence, but its economic success started only 30 years ago. Neither the Second Polish Republic after World War I, nor the socialist People’s Republic of Poland after World War II managed to significantly increase standard of living compared to the USA.

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Review #9

REVIEW #9: State Decentralization in Poland Has Been Successful, but There Is Still Room for Improvement

4liberty.eu, Aleksander Laszek and Rafal Trzeciakowski/November 6, 2018March 19, 2019 /1 Comment

Decentralization in Poland was implemented in two stages – in 1990 and in 1999. The early reforms passed down central government tasks as well as some revenue-raising authority, giving it limited autonomy regarding real estate taxes, local fees, and other minor taxes.

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Economy

Just 5.6 Million People Produce Half of Polish GDP

Aleksander Laszek, Rafal Trzeciakowski and FOR/August 28, 2018 /Leave a comment

Apart from modern enterprises competing in international markets, there are more small enterprises of very low productivity in Poland than in developed countries. FOR estimates that half of Polish GDP is produced by at most 5.6 million people.

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Politics

Polish PM Morawiecki’s Declarations Versus Reality

Aleksander Laszek, Rafal Trzeciakowski and FOR/February 12, 2018February 12, 2018 /Leave a comment

In his first parliamentary speech, PM Mateusz Morawiecki repeated many theses of the government. Some of them are wrong and contradict the experiences of other countries. Others, while right, stand in clear contradiction with the actual actions of the Polish government.

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Economy

Polish State-Owned Enterprises Attack the Courts on the Ruling Party Order

Rafal Trzeciakowski and FOR/November 6, 2017November 6, 2017 /Leave a comment

The Law and Justice Party (PiS) has been using state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to push for changes in the justice system that are detrimental to rule of law, economic growth, and civil liberties. At the same time, SOEs saved the Polish Mining Group (PGG) from bankruptcy.

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