State still with record-high share in economy
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The report of scientists Maciej Baltowski and Marlena Gołębiowska from the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (UMCS) in Lublin shows that 30 years after the transformation, the state still controls almost half of the largest Polish companies. That's a lot even against the background of the region.
Researchers took into account the group of 50 of the largest enterprises in terms of operating revenues from Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, Hungary, and Slovakia.
In total, as many as 20 out of 50 (40 percent) largest Polish companies are under state control - this is definitely more than in any of the other countries of the region.
In Slovakia, the second largest in this respect in CEE-5, this percentage is 28%, in Hungary it is 24%, in the Czech Republic - 16%, and in Romania - 14%.
According to UMCS researchers, it is in Poland that the scope of state-owned enterprises is one of the largest in the world in the group of developed and highly developed countries. Gołębiowska states that she also represents the Lublin-based Institute for Central Europe that published the report.
