IMF maintains its GDP growth forecast for Poland

The International Monetary Fund has sustained its estimate that Poland's GDP will grow by 3.6 percent and remain at this level in 2016 and 2017, whereas it will stand at 3.5 percent in 2021. IMF experts projected 0.2 deflation in 2016 and a return to inflation, amounting to 1.3 percent in 2017 and 2.5 percent in 2021. The unemployment rate is to fall to 6.9 percent this year and next year. On May 3, the European Commission upped its forecast, saying that Poland's GDP will grow by 3.7 percent in 2016 and 3.6 percent in 2017.