Inflation this year will be at 1.8%, rising to 2.4% next year and 3.5% in 2012, according to forecasts by the National Bank of Poland.

Gross domestic product will increase annually by 3.1%, then 2.9%, then 3.1% over the next three years.

At the same time, the bank's economists predict that gross pay will increase 4.1% this year, 3.9% next and 5.3% the year after, although unemployment will continue to rise until mid-2011.

Source: Polska – The Times