Increases in food prices in Poland will be the biggest in Q4 and will slow in subsequent quarters to single-digit growth expected in Q4 2023, the National Bank of Poland (NBP) has forecast in its November inflation report. The NBP published the report on November 14 and projected that food price growth would stand at…
Poland’s GDP is expected to rise to 4.6% in 2022, according to projections from Poland’s central bank released on November 14. The bank also put GDP at 0.7% in 2023 before rising to 2% in 2024 and 3.1% in 2025. The central bank also predicts that Consumer Price Index inflation will run at 14.5% in…
As many as 30% of Poles are planning to ask for a pay rise within the next six months, according to a new poll. Of the 30%, UCE Research and SYNO Poland pollsters found that 31.9% said they wanted to ask for a rise equaling 10-15% of their current wage while 24% said they would…
The European Commission (EC), the EU’s executive arm, has lowered its 2022 GDP growth estimate for Poland to 4.0% from the 5.2% forecast in July. In a report published on November 11 the EC also lowered its 2023 GDP growth forecast for Poland to 0.7% from the 1.5% expected earlier. According to the European Commission,…
Inflation will peak at around 19% at the start of next year, but will fail to break the 20% barrier, says Adam Glapinski, governor of the National Bank of Poland (NBP). He added that inflation, which rose to 17.9% in October, should start to fall in the second quarter of 2023. Glapinski made the statement…
The Monetary Policy Council (RPP), the Polish central bank’s rate-setting body, has kept the reference interest rate at 6.75%, it announced on November 9, despite rising inflation. The National Bank of Poland’s Lombard rate remained at 7.25%, the rediscount rate at 6.80% and the discount rate at 6.85%. The RPP also left the deposit rate…
Poland’s rate setting council said on November 9 that its decision to put interest rates on hold was based on expectations that the global economic slowdown along with monetary tightening in Poland and abroad would lower inflation towards the central bank’s inflation target. In a statement issued after its decision to keep interest rates level,…