– Jarosław Kaczyński, comparing Poland with Japan, refers to the OECD report, which shows the average income in Poland – said Dr. Małgorzata Starczewska-Krzysztoszek from the Warsaw University Faculty of Economics in the program ” Pressroom”. – But these figures are calculated a little differently, it’s not about the nominal salary. In the report, income has been reduced to the expenses we make for a certain shopping basket, we say this is a reference to the purchasing power parity of money. And here, in fact, the president of PiS referred to Poland and Japan, close to each other in this ranking. Japan is ahead of Poland. Simply put, the average Japanese can buy 20%. more than one pole at comparable prices. Those ahead of us are the top 20 percent in terms of purchasing power of money. And if we link our data to the Germans, this gap is much larger. We still have a lot to recover. However, this cannot be done without development…
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