1. Nominal GDP/capita performance and its components
Polish regional economic disparities have been the subject of debate in the
government and European Union since the early 1990’s. These differences can be
attributed to the location of input factors, whose origins can be traced back to the
divergent development paths pursued by partitioning powers and also to the later
management of the country’s economic resources up until the beginning of the
1990’s under communism. The Socialist system of economic planning, given its
reliance on heavy industry, largely reinforced economic structures across regions,
resulting in the central, southern and western areas of the country becoming more
industrially concentrated, while regions further east remained largely agricultural