No. 134 - Polish Foreign Investment – State Aid?

Institute for Western Affairs' Special Bulletin (No. 134/2013) Marta Götz, Polish Foreign Investment - State Aid?

Highly desirable in view of the very limited extent of Poland's foreign direct investment and justified by the fact that other countries engage in similar support practices, state aid for the foreign expansion of Polish enterprises could help intensify industrial policy on the one hand and enhance the so called public diplomacy on the other. Such state aid might, as its consequence, offer an unintended added value of "reverse economic diplomacy" promoting the country of Poland abroad through businesses which succeed in conquering foreign markets.