Economics In Brief: Interest rates; Inflation; VAT; unemployment

Many analysts claim that the Monetary Policy Council will not change interest rates at its next meeting as the government has not come up with the program of public expenditure cuts. Another argument against the reduction is the unstable zloty. (Parkiet, p. 5) ... The Finance Ministry has estimated that year-on-year inflation in September will be 0.9-1%. (Parkiet, p. 1) ... Economy Minister Jerzy Hausner announced that September was the seventh month in a row of falling unemployment figures. During the month the unemployment rate dropped by 10,000. (www. onet.pl) A.Z.