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The Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency (PAIiIZ) is currently running 156 investment projects worth a total of €6.47 billion which could generate 40,710 new jobs.

According to the National Bank of Poland, the inflow of direct foreign investments to Poland in the 10 first months of 2011 totaled €9.05 billion. That is 34 percent more than for the whole of 2010.

“At a time when investors across the world are running scared, PAIiIZ says that as of the end of November it had completed work on 51 investment projects with its total value - 87 per cent more that in the same period of last year. … The story of Poland as a smart, fast-growing, politically stable and culturally vibrant country is obviously getting out to the wider world,” said Waldemar Pawlak, deputy prime minister and economy minister, in a recent article published in The Economist.

The majority of investments managed by PAIiIZ come from US firms, which run 42 projects worth a total of €1.09 billion. The UK comes second in terms of the number of projects, with 16 investments worth €373 million. But in terms of value, Germany wins second place, with 15 projects valued at €489 million.

In terms of sectors, the most popular investment categories are in automotive, business process outsourcing (BPO) and machinery.