Foreign investment on route to break $5 billion barrier in 2004

Since the beginning of the year up to the end of September, 164 foreign entities announced, or actually carried out investments worth $4.4 billion. Comparison of last year's figures with data for Q3 2004 show that SME's are increasingly interested in Poland. This category is much better than large enterprises, as smaller companies are less susceptible to crisis and they do not require public aid. "The attractiveness of Poland is increased thanks to large pool of educated people and their ability to compete on the labor market," said one major investor.(Rzeczpospolita, pp. A1, B1) M.M.