Proceedings of the 22nd International Academic Conference, Lisbon

THE MAIN DETERMINANTS OF THE SECTORS AND INDUSTRIES OF THE POLISH ECONOMY FOR FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT

MAGDALENA KOZŁOWSKA

Abstract:

On the basis of the available material I shall investigate the attractiveness of sectors and branches of the Polish economy for foreign direct investment (FDI). First of all, they are identified sectors and industries of the Polish economy which now became attractive from the foreign direct investors point of view. I shall also identify and specify the general conditions for investment in those sectors and industries. Next I shall indicate the change of the sectorally-trade attractiveness of the Polish economy since the 90s., that is since the initial period of transformation of the socio-economic development in the country took place. In that period there was a significant improvement in the general conditions for foreign capital in comparison with the period of real socialism. In the process of analysis I will attempt to compare the attractiveness of sectors and industries of the Polish economy and the economies of European countries, especially the Central and Eastern Europe as direct competitors in the Polish struggle for obtaining foreign capital. The basis of all of the analyzes will be mainly sources of the Polish Agency for Information and Foreign Investment, which, among other things, deals with searching for attractive locations for investment as well as materials Ministry of Economy and of the well-known consulting firm Ernst & Young.

Keywords: attractiveness of sectors, attractiveness of industries, foreign direct investment

DOI: 10.20472/IAC.2016.022.029

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