Investment risk continues to fall says IBnGR report

Niche sectors, such as bookbinding, production of metal containers or recycling metal waste, will carry the lowest investment risk. This trend appeared at the beginning of 2003 after a period of growing investment risk related to the sluggish economy. The risk will also drop in the first half of 2004 due to the expected acceleration of development processes in numerous sectors of the economy and due to psychological aspect of joining the EU, which should result in a growing propensity to invest in Poland. It is worth stressing that the effects of EU accessing will not be similar for all sectors of the economy. The highest risk sectors are sugar production, coal mining and gypsum production. The risk in the first two is related to the lack of market reforms and privatization. (Rzeczpospolita, p. B4) M.M.