Poland in line to receive $1.2 billion of World Bank funding by 2005

Poland may be entitled to as much as $1.2 billion in World Bank loans over the next three years, according to an initial Bank report for the years 2002 to 2005. The funds could be used to support the restructuring of the mining and agriculture sectors, highway construction, educational reform, and health care. "We have presented our proposals. However the sums of money to back specific projects will depend on negotiations with the institutions supervising those sectors of the economy," said Jacek Wojciechowicz, a spokesman for the World Bank in Poland. (Rzeczpospolita, p. B3; Puls Biznesu, p. 12) P.W.