Poland has jumped up the world league of countries that are attractive to foreign direct investment (FDI), according to AT Kearney's FDI Confidence Index(r) 2003. But the report contrasts wildly with a World Bank study released a few days earlier.
An explanation was provided by Jan Maciejewicz, the head of the AT Kearney Warsaw office, to explain that AT Kearey's optimistic results - which show that Poland has moved from eleventh to fourth position as an intended destination for FDI - are an expression of relatively irrational investor intentions, rather than of raw investment data.
The World Bank, and the National Bank of Poland by association with Leszek. Balcerowicz, slam Polish bureaucracy and suggest that it will continue to choke FDI until it is reformed.
