Lukasz Dabros

A Warsaw School of Economics graduate (MSc in Economics) and a member of the political and economic analysis department of .Nowoczesna - a Polish centre-liberal political party established in 2015. His main interests are political and development economics, macroeconomics, history and international relations

Economy

PiSonomics: When “Common Sense” Replaces Evidence-Based Policymaking in Poland

BY Lukasz Dabros AND Projekt Polska / June 3, 2019

Analysts investigating the roots of the PiS\'s dominance agree that one of the strongest pillars of its success is a massive universal child benefit scheme called “Family 500+”, providing each and every Polish family with a monthly payment of PLN 500 (ca. EUR 115) for their second and every next underage child.

Economy

Aging Polish Society and the Naive Law and Justice’s Pension System Retro-Reform

BY Lukasz Dabros AND Projekt Polska / March 14, 2017

Unfortunately, in 2016, the populist Law and Justice government decided to reverse the reform – the pseudo-economic rationale was the infamous lump of labor fallacy. They wrongly claimed that lowering the retirement age would be a perfect tool to fight youth unemployment – retiring seniors would (in their opinion) leave their jobs for young Poles.