The Polish economic crisis: background, causes and aftermath
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
List of figure and tables viii
Foreword x
Preface xii
INTRODUCTION 1
1 INVESTMENT 7
Introduction 7
Problems of investment cycles 8
Gierek s rush for rapid economic growth, and economic slump 12
The drive towards overinvestment, tension and inefficiency 18
The structural allocation of investment 21
Disinvestment and the legacy of the investment crisis 27
2 EXTERNAL ECONOMIC RELATIONSHIPS 31
Introduction 31
National economy, export dynamics and export performance 32
Import dynamics and the import intensiveness of production 38
The structure of Poland s foreign trade 41
Foreign trade planning and regulation 47
Debt trap and economic crisis 50
3 INFLATION 60
Introduction 60
Open inflation 60
Hidden and repressed inflation 72
Inflation and economic collapse, 1980 2 80
Causes or sources of inflation 83
4 AGRICULTURE 87
Introduction 87
Agricultural policies and performances 87
External trade in agriculture related products 93
Food demand and consumption 96
Performance comparison between private and socialized farming 101
Agricultural structural features and problems 104
v
THE POLISH ECONOMIC CRISIS
5 LABOUR SUPPLY 108
Introduction 108
Demographic factors 108
Participation rates 112
Working time, absenteeism and labour turnover 115 I
Education level, aspirations and frustrations of the labour force 120
6 LABOUR POLICY 128 ;
Introduction 128 I
The drive towards full employment 128 •
Employment policy, 1950 70 134 I
Employment policy, 1971 82 136
Economic reforms and labour regulation 140 *
Full employment as a problem. Are an unemployment scare
and an economic crisis remedies? 144
7 THE VIEWS OF POLISH ECONOMISTS 149
Introduction 149
Polish dissident writings before August 1980 150
Selected Polish economists views on the economic crisis of 1979—82 154
8 LEGITIMACY 168
Introduction 168
Legitimation, ideology and institutionalization 170
The collapse ofGierek s legitimation strategy 176
Legitimation strains in state socialism 179
9 THE AFTERMATH OF THE ECONOMIC CRISIS 182
Introduction 182
Economic performance in 1983 9 182
Investment inefficiency 189
Inflation 191
External economic relationships 195
Economic reform 201
Breakthrough and the transition to a market economy 205
10 CONCLUSION 211
Introduction 211
Gierek s investment leap and investment distortions 212
The failure of Gierek s import led growth strategy 213
Inflation 215
Zig zag in agricultural policies 216
Labour supply, labour quality and full employment 216
Economic crisis etiologies and legitimacy deficits 217
Aftermath of the economic crisis of 1979 82
and the collapse of state socialism 219
Summary 221
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CONTENTS
Notes 111
Bibliography 237
Name index 253
Subject index 254
vii
LIST OF FIGURE AND TABLES
FIGURE
1.1 Annual growth of net material product and investment in
fixed assets, 1950 82 H
TABLES
In.l Basic indicators of economic development, 1971 82 (percentage
growth with respect to previous year in constant prices) 2
1.1 Average annual rate of growth of investment in the individual
cycles and phases of development (in per cent constant prices) 12
1.2 Selected plan targets, 1971 5, and their realization (constant prices) 15
1.3 Annual average growth and structure of investment (productive
and non productive) in constant prices 23
1.4 Sectoral structure of investment, 1961 82 (in constant prices and
in per cent) 24
1.5 Annual average growth of investment and its distribution,
socialized industry, 1961 80, in constant prices 25
1.6 Investment in construction, frozen, committed investments and
investment outlays in the socialized sector, 1975 82 (current prices) 28
2.1 Ratio of exports to gross national product, 1966 82 33
2.2 Export growth and export elasticity with respect to net material
product, 1961 82 (in constant prices of 1977) 34
2.3 Annual average growth of investment and exports 37
2.4 Growth of imports, final production, gross investment and
consumption, 1960 82 ^
2.5 Import intensity of investment, 1970 80 40
2.6 Commodity structure of total exports, exports to CMEA and
industrialized West, 1971 82 (at current prices) in per cent 43
2.7 Commodity structure of total imports, imports from CMEA and
industrialized West, 1971 82 (at current prices) in per cent 44
2.8 Geographical structure of Polish foreign trade, 1970 82 46
2.9 Plan and realized trade turnover and balances with non socialist
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LIST OF FIGURE AND TABLES
countries (in current prices), 1971 82 51
2.10 Balance of payments in convertible currencies (million US $), 1970 82 54
2.11 Poland s debt in convertible currencies (in million US $), 1970 82 56
3.1 Annual price changes (in per cent and in comparison with preceding year)
of goods and services bought by the population in Poland, 1961 82 63
3.2 Changes in retail prices, output of marketed agricultural
products and industrial consumer goods, 1971 82 65
3.3 Market delivery of selected consumer goods, 1975 82 70
3.4 Estimates of hidden inflation in Poland, 1960 78 74
3.5 Indices of retail prices for food in Poland, 1960 82 (1960 100) 76
3.6 Personal money income, retail turnover and savings of the
population, 1970 82 78
3.7 Estimates of excess demand and shortages for Poland
(in per cent of quantity transacted) 79
3.8 Personal money income and market supply of consumer goods,
1979 82 (in billion current zlotys) 81
3.9 Growth of labour productivity and average wages in socialized
industry, 1971 9 85
4.1 Land in the State Land Fund (in 1,000 hectares), 1960 82 90
4.2 Trade in agricultural products and foodstuffs with non socialist
countries (in million US $) 95
4.3 Per capita consumption of selected agricultural products,
1960 82, and planned targets for 1980 and 1990 98
4.4 Gross production per hectare agricultural land by farm type,
yearly average, 1966 81 103
4.5 Value added per hectare of agricultural land by farm type,
yearly average, 1966 81 104
5.1 Average annual natural increase in population, 1951 82 109
5.2 Annual net migration into urban areas and annual increases
in the urban population 111
5.3 Participation rates 116
5.4 Working hours in socialized industry (production and development
group per worker, 1960 82) 118
5.5 Turnover of the labour force in the socialized sector, 1965 82 121
5.6 Employment in the socialized economy by type of education,
1958 82 123
6.1 Total population, working age population and employment, 1950 82 131
6.2 Poland: persons seeking work and vacant jobs, 1955 82 132
6.3 Selected macro economic indicators, 1951 70 136
9.1 The Three Year Plan, 1983 5, and its realization 184
9.2 Selected basic indicators of economic development, 1983 9 188
9.3 Monthly changes of retail consumer prices and money wages
in state sector, 1988 9 (percentage from previous month) 194
9.4 Current balance in convertible currencies (million US $), 1983 9 197
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