Publications & Documents

Administrative Simplification in Poland - Making Policies Perform

Education Poland: Changing the structure of the school system to give better education opportunities for all

(Video) - Thanks to a major overhaul of its school system, Poland has dramatically reduced the numbers of poorly performing students in the last 10 years. Though Poland spends less than half of what richer countries like the United States and Norway spend on education, it achieves similar results.

Regulatory Reform in OECD Countries: Reports by Country

The unique OECD peer review process has helped improve public policy. It assesses how countries manage the design, adoption and enforcement of regulations according to a conceptual framework. It ensures comparability while taking account of institutional and cultural differences across countries.

Strong Performers and Successful Reformers in Education (England, Poland and Sweden)

This volume combines an analysis of PISA with a description of the policies and practices of those education systems that are close to the top or advancing rapidly, in order to offer insights for policy from their reform trajectories.

The Impact of the 1999 Education Reform in Poland (EDU Working Paper No. 49)

Increasing the share of vocational secondary schooling has been a mainstay of development policy for decades, especially in formerly socialist countries. However, the transition to market economies led to restructuring of school systems and a decline in the number of vocational students.

Poland: Key Issues and Policies

Poland: Preparing for euro adoption

The paper focuses on the major structural reforms necessary to prepare for euro adoption that should allow a sustainable fulfilment of the Maastricht criteria and maximisation of the ensuing various benefits.

Doing Better for Children: Presentation to the Polish Parliamentary Social Policy Committee

Presentation of child well-being indicators in Poland compared to selected OECD countries, policies for the under age 3’s, effects of sole-parenthood on child outcomes, intergenerational inequality and policy recommendations to enhance child well-being.

20 Years After: Panel introduction by Mr. Jan Woroniecki, Ambassador of Poland to the OECD

This seminar looked at the experience of former communist countries and their achievements as a source of knowledge and hope for our own future. People all over the world have been reviving memories of 20 years ago when the Berlin Wall was finally brought down. Political freedom is priceless. But did it bring about economic and social wellbeing as it should? Did free markets meet expectations? What lessons can we draw from the