Seventy percent of the economy is privatized, with some 3 million new small businesses. Foreign firms such as Boeing and General Motors have plants dotted across the country. The economy grows an average of well over 5 percent annually. Indicators do not necessarily, of course, happy people make. Corruption is rife.
Agriculture is a mess, and many of the big-enterprise dinosaurs of the communist period still stand.
Solidarity and the Roman Catholic Church have lost in popularity to the omnipotent new secularism. And yet Poland is becoming the country for the still floundering states of the east to emulate. In one short decade Poland has gone from martyr to model.