Talk:Balcerowicz Plan

Vandalism

"# Act of Monetary Return, freezing the exchange of Polish currency while maintaining a high level of inflation."

There can be little doubt that the Balcerowicz plan led to such a situation, but no one wants to slit their own throat. This is an important historical article, in my opinion. The reforms remain to this day controversial. Maybe few native English speakers know what the Balcerowicz plan was but the educated know what "shock therapy" was. To state that it was a deliberate attempt to screw oneself is both misinformative and stupid beyond belief. This is not a well known subject, but it is a controversial one, and it is easily subject to vandalism. Pay attention. Who is looking after the quality of Polish articles except for me? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.115.97.180 (talk) 21:07, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Average unemployment rate since 1992

Since there is a text about growth since 1992, perhaps a kind soul would calculate average unemployment rate since 1992?

Data is here --MyMoloboaccount (talk) 23:47, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

Please don't remove sourced and valid information

Please don't remove sourced and valid information-the other user has based his edits on reliable sources, I see no reason why we should remove them.--MyMoloboaccount (talk) 18:32, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

The Cambridge University Press source is fine. The rest is just polemics and politicians' opinions (do we seriously want to put up Lepper as a contrast to Balcerowicz?). Some of it violates WP:FRINGE. The whole edit is just one big exercise in POV pushing.Volunteer Marek (talk) 05:09, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

Effects and NPOV

There are a lot of non-neutral and disputable statements in the Effects section. Unemployment in Poland has risen drastically over 10-15 years, and the article is implying that it was just previous hidden unemployment, and attributing bankruptcies and unemployment to the reforms to some "widespread perception". However, the truth is that many people have lost their jobs. BeŻet (talk) 17:59, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

"Foreign debt reached $42 billion" inconsistencies

From Polish wiki site about foreign debt, only in polish https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zad%C5%82u%C5%BCenie_zagraniczne_PRL

Polish debt was: 232 million $ in 1957 766 million $ in 1967 1 100 million $ in 1971 8 600 million $ in 1976 42 000 milion $ in 1989 - end of communism.

- it mostly rised due to inflation and interest rates. In 42 billion $ in 1989 -- 24,1 billion $ was interests only, and 10,9 billion was loan service, so you see, it was financial screwement which feeds itself on hyperinflation and collapse of East Bloc. Polish communist party leaders before Eduard Gerek were strict and carefoul about taking foreign debts and they were right. 5.173.158.87 (talk) 08:49, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

Biased Author(s)

Whoever wrote this, is clearly biased against the Balcerowicz Plan. An assessment should include both positive and negative results of the Plan. However, this "assessment" includes only negatives. There are many valid criticisms for the Plan, but there were also many benefits and they have not been presented well here. 2001:1C00:1217:2300:28AD:7D83:8C68:F036 (talk) 08:27, 31 July 2025 (UTC)