Poland

STRUCTURE OF THE ECONOMY

Coal vendor on a Kraków street.
Courtesy Sam and Sarah Stulberg

Coal miner in the Andaluzja Mine, Silesia.
CourtesyPolish Information Agency, Warsaw

Figure 14. Heavy Industry and Mineral Resources, 1990

Hungarian beer produced at the Okocim Brewery.
Courtesy Polish Information Agency, Warsaw

Polonez cars coming off the assembly line at the Passenger Car Plant in Warsaw.
Courtesy Polish Information Agency, Warsaw

Construction at the Szczecin Shipyard.
Courtesy Polish Information Agency, Warsaw

Clean room at Unitra-Cemi Electronics Plant, Warsaw.
Courtesy Polish Information Agency, Warsaw

Figure 15. Transportation System, 1992

A Boeing 767 of LOT, the Polish national airline, at Okecie Airport, Warsaw.
Courtesy Polish Information Agency, Warsaw

Although Poland possessed abundant supplies of some natural resources, the structure and administration of the centrally planned system had long caused misallocation of those resources and of investment funds among the economic sectors. In addition, the cutoff of critical industrial inputs from the Soviet Union required major restructuring and rebalancing of all sectors.

Data as of October 1992

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