The World Bank Group’s financing to Poland remains highly selective. This is meant to maximize impact while helping Poland address remaining development challenges, and delivering global public goods.

Poland has made strides in strengthening its overall economic governance systems over the last three decades and reached remarkable economic success. However, economic and social institutions to manage key transitions—demographic, green, and digital—need to be developed further on the national and subnational level to achieve sustainable graduation from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. At the same time, public sector reforms must be paired with vast private capital mobilization to support the necessary investments at scale.

In the face of new challenges and a rapidly evolving global context, the World Bank Group seeks to help Poland recalibrate its growth model to reboot productivity growth and competitiveness and proactively address issues related to energy security, technological transitions, and water resilience.

In cooperation with the public and private sector in the country, the World Bank Group is focusing on enabling innovation and investments for higher quality jobs through unlocking private investment and innovation capacity, while facilitating the necessary labor and skills transitions in the face of rapid technological changes.

In the energy sector, analytical support from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, combined with the International Finance Corporation’s private and local government sector investments, will seek to increase innovative renewable energy sources (RES) power generation, ensure the enabling transmission and storage infrastructure is in place, and strengthen the grid to accommodate additional clean energy.

Water resilience is another focus area for the World Bank Group, which will focus its efforts on protecting water as a strategic asset and safeguarding people and the economy from flood- and drought-related disasters.