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...mixed blessing," says Jos Verbeek, a World Bank economist in Warsaw, who hopes economic policy will at least be more coordinated. But Kolodko was controversial, and many business leaders are glad he's gone. "The environment in which we've been operating has been exceptionally hostile," says Henryka Bochniarz, president of the Polish Confederation of Private Employers. If the new guy isn't any better, at least he won't be around for long. - By Blaine Greteman. Reported by Tadeusz L. Kucharski/Warsaw and Jan Stojaspal The Bubble Economy There must be good economic news somewhere: French drinks group...
...business is what she brought back to life in Poland. At the fund, Lundberg helped spawn dozens of enterprises employing upwards of 100,000 Poles and with aggregate sales of more than $1 billion. "Without her the fund would have been a complete failure," says Henryka Bochniarz, a former Minister of Industry and Trade who now runs a private consulting firm in Warsaw. Bochniarz says Lundberg's prior experience as vice president of corporate finance at Kidder Peabody in New York City introduced a level of managerial and financial expertise that did not exist in Poland 10 years...
Just after noon each day, Henryka Ptasinska, 33, collects meals for herself and her six children from the soup kitchen at 10 Inwalidow Square in the leafy Warsaw suburb of Zoliborz. She is one of 250 regulars at the serving hatch in the white-tiled kitchen, opened to alleviate some of the pain produced by Poland's forced march from a centrally planned communist system to a free- market society. Her lunchtime routine shows that the success of that transformation still hangs in the balance...
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