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Slides from the event "Opportunities in the Czech Republic and Poland" held at the World Trade Center Atlanta
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Embassy of Poland – Trade & Investment Section
PolandInvestment Opportunities
Poland – basic facts
Territory: 312 700 km2 – 6th place in the EU
Population: 38.1 m. – 6th place in the EU
Currency: PLN (1 USD ~ 3.13 PLN)
GDP in 2013: $ 814 bn (PPP)
Membership: EU, NATO, OECD, WTO, Schengen Zone
620 mi radius
250 m people
1240 mi radius
550 m people
Strategic location of Poland
right in the centre of Europe!
Poland – highlights of what we produce
• LCD sets & Household appliances – largest producer in the EU
• Apples – the largest producer in Europe (second in the world)
• Windows and doors – second largest producer in the EU
(largest exporter of PVC and wooden windows in Europe)
• Tobacco – second biggest producer in the EU
• Furniture – Third largest exporter in the EU
• Aviation sector - Virtually every passenger aircraft
in the world carries at least one part made in Poland
• Yachts – European leader in the production of yachts up to 9.5 m
Poland a leader of growth in Europe
Source: E&Y Attractiveness Survey, June 2013
• 1st place in the CEE region – the most competitive country in the region.
• 1st place in terms of number of the investment projects in the CEE.
• 3rd place in the whole Europe in terms of created jobs due to FDI (13 111 jobs – only the UK and Russia were better).
• 3rd place in Europe in Europe in terms of created jobs per 1 project.
Source: UNCTAD, World Investment Prospects Survey 2009-2011, World Investment Report 2013.
Main advantages of Poland: Stable economic situation Market growth Size of internal market Access to regional markets System of investment incentives
Poland is among the 15 most attractive investment locations in the world
World Investment Report
45th place
The best result in the history
3rd place in credit availability
Poland among 15 countries catching up the fastest
Source: Doing Business Report 2014
10 place improvement
Doing Business 2014
Corruption Perceptions Index 2013Transparency International
Source: Corruption Perceptions Index 2013 Transparency International
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Transparency International: Poland has the lowest corruption among CEE countries
Index value (higher score = less corruption). Numbers in brackets indicate position in ranking of 176 countries
Why Poland?
Highly skilled, young and abundant workforce!
Imagine Cup is a global competition focused on finding IT solutions to real world issues.
In 2012 students from Technical University in Gdansk and Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan took the 2nd and 3rd place respectively.
Students and graduates – achievements
Source: www.microsoft.com, www.us.edu.pl
2011: Polish team from University of Silesia is a special winner of Samsung Application Contest.
Every third student doing internship in Microsoft HQs in Redmond (USA) comes from Poland.
The winners of the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) belong to the best young computer scientists in the world.
In 2008 Polish team took 1st place ex-aequo with Chinese one. The third place individually was won by Pole, too.
ACN International Collegiate Programming Contest is an annual multi-tiered competitive programming competition among the universities of the world. The contest is sponsored by IBM.
2012 held in Poland, Team from University of Warsaw took 2nd place beating 110 teams.
Human resources
Źródło: EIU, Eurostat.
Main university centres
Szczecin
Tricity
Warsaw
Poznan
Wroclaw
Cracow
Lodz
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• 20 million of talented young people, who speak foreign languages
• 1.7 mln students, over 400 000 graduates every year• 87% of students speak foreign languages• 50% of population is younger than 35 yrs.
(in the group between 20 and 29 y.o. 1/3 studies)
• there are 460 higher education institutions in Poland
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Foreign language capability by age groups
Source: CBOS Survey
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Learning of foreign languages is obligatory in the Polish education system
English is the most popular foreign language in Poland
Source: Randstad.
Children learn foreign languages from the age of 6
Language proficiency is one of the strongest points for Poland as a BPO center
Human resources
I. Exclusive CIT exemption in 14 Special Economic Zones
II. Government grants through individual negotiationsindividually approved and granted by the Ministry of the Economy
III. Real estate tax exemptionsubject to negotiation with the local authorities only in case if the investor is the owner of the building(provided by the Commune Council)
IV. Cash grants available through EU Fundssubject to negotiation with different managing institutions depending on the investment project key parameters
State aid – we want you to be succesfull
All above presented instruments can be combined together however the total amount of state aid cannot exceed the maximum aid intensity – European Union’s law
Why Poland?
Availability of skilled human resources
Economic and political stability
Effective incentive system including EU-Funding
Strategic location – gateway to the EU
1503 21st Street NW, Washington, DC
tel. (202) 467 66 90, fax (202) 833 83 43
e-mail: [email protected]
Thank you for your attention
www.washington.trade.gov.pl