WHILE it gets less attention than India or China, Poland has
been one of the world’s great development success stories of the past
two decades. This is due in no small part to the policies it pursued
after the end of Communist rule. One of the architects of those
policies, Leszek Balcerowicz, was the subject of
a long interview in this weekend’s
Wall Street Journal.
The article is worth reading, although Mr Balcerowicz’s narrative of
Poland’s success and its applicability to the beleaguered nations of the
euro area leaves something to be desired.
