Executive summary
Assessment and recommendations
-Towards a soft landing?
-The macroeconomic policy mix is appropriate in the baseline scenario
-The fiscal framework should be strengthened and made more transparent
-There are many possible avenues for further fiscal consolidation in the medium term
-Structural reforms can boost economic performance
-Improving the health-care system
-Climate-change policies: minimising the costs of GHG emissions reduction
-Bibliography
-Annex: Progress in structural reform
Chapter 1. Improving the health-care system
-Structure of the health-care system
-Aggregate health outcomes are broadly consistent with the country’s level of development
-Addressing the substantial limitations in access to care
-Health-related fiscal issues are important but manageable
-Improving hospital efficiency
-Improving the career prospects of medical staff and reforming generalists’ remuneration
-Designing a comprehensive long-term care system
-Bibliography
-Appendix 1.A1. Progress in structural reform
Chapter 2. Climate change policies in Poland – minimising abatement costs
-A large GHG-emissions reduction due to economic transformation followed by relative stability
-Poland’s large emissions-reduction potential should be realised at least cost via a single carbon price
-But explicit and implicit carbon prices vary widely in Poland
-Raising the responsiveness to the EU-ETS carbon price signal in order to minimise abatement costs
-A cost-efficient support scheme for renewables in electricity generation is desirable in the long run
-Electricity mix within the EU-ETS and the scope for direct government intervention.
-The role of renewable sources outside electricity production
-Improving energy-efficiency policies
-Towards a more efficient organisation of the transport sector
-Bibliography
-Appendix 2.A1. Progress in structural reform