Polish economy set to grow 3.4% this year: IMF
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Paweł Kononczuk
18.04.2017 17:13
The Polish economy is set to grow 3.4% this year and 3.2% in 2018, according to a new forecast by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in its World Economic Outlook report.
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In January, IMF analysts had forecast that Polish GDP would grow 3.3% both in 2017 and 2018.
The IMF also predicts that inflation in Poland will hit 2.3% at the end of 2017, and 2.4% at the end of 2018.
Those projections are 0.8 and 0.2 percentage points higher respectively than in its January forecasts.
The IMF also lowered its unemployment forecast for Poland. According to the latest projection, joblessness will be 5.5% this year and 5.3% next year.
Its January forecast predicted the figures would be 6.2% and 6.1% respectively.
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Source: PAP