Strong economic growth to continue throughout 2007

"Consumption is growing from month to month; according to our estimates it might increase by as much as 5.2% in 2007, while GDP growth for the full year - 6%," said Ryszard Petru, chief economist of Bank BPH. In his opinion better results should also be anticipated in terms of wage and employment growth, which should rise by 6.5% and 4% respectively. All of these elements should bring an additional zl.203 billion in revenues to the budget and thus a budget revenue estimate of zl.228.9 million does not seem to be out of the question. According to some analysts, Polish economic growth would be even better if not for increasing pensions and slowdown in international markets. Domestic entrepreneurs are also very optimistic about the current economic prospects. (Rzeczpospolita, p. B2) M.M.