Curiosidade do dia

No The Sunday Times do passado Domingo este título que dá que pensar, "Go figure - Poland is nearly as rich as the UK. How has it caught up so fast?":

"In 1995 Poland's GDP per capita was $13,600 in today's money - about 36 per cent of Britain's and roughly the same as Brazil's. Today Poland's figure is $44,500, or 81 per cent of ours. It may soon pull level. Since the end of 2019 Britain's GDP per capita has grown by less than 1 per cent in real US dollars. Poland's has grown almost 18 per cent, nearly twice as much as that of the US.

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The brain drain of young talent to countries like Britain and Germany was a problem throughout the 2010s but several factors have turned things around. Since 2019 Poland has had a lower income tax for workers under 26; a recent study found it to be the thirdbest European country for young adults to live in. 

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Wages, adjusted for prices, are now neck and neck with those in Italy.

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Strikingly, it reveals many parts of Britain have been overtaken by Poland's more successful areas. The greater Warsaw region has a GDP of €67,000 per capita, adjusted for prices, which is bettered only by central London.

Capital cities typically have strong economies. But 12 of Poland's 17 regions are now richer than west Wales, the poorest part of Britain. Dolnoslaskie - or Lower Silesia - in Poland's southwest is better off than Greater Manchester. In fact if we were to strip London out, Britain's output per head would be just 3 per cent ahead of Poland's."

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