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We present you the nineteenth annual report on foreign investment in Poland.

We have been continuing in it the traditional research topics under-taken in its previous editions. Against the background of international flows of direct investment and external opinions on attractiveness of Poland for foreign investors, we present flow of foreign direct invest-ment to this country, population of foreign-owned companies as well as the role of those companies in the Polish economy and its foreign trade. We are analysing how there are functioning foreign-owned companies in the sphere of trade and in the SME sector as well as their reactions to the economic condition breakdown in the world and in Poland.

Besides the mentioned topics, there is a number of new ones. In a broader than in the previous report editions way we treat the interna-tional context. The article on foreign direct investment in Brazil and on this country's policy towards foreign investors initiates the cycle of tre-atises devoted to the BRIC countries and to their role in international flows of direct investment. We undertake the problem of investment per-spectives for Western Balkans, an important one from the point of view of prospects for FDI inflow to Poland if not in the present, then obvi-ously in the next decade, as well as the topic that has long been the key issue for that inflow - foreign direct investment in the automotive in-dustry of the new EU Member States. The theoretical stream is repre-sented by deliberations on the place of foreign investment in the Econ-omy Competitiveness Integrated Model.

We do hope that the presented information and analyses in the report will contribute to a better recognition of the new phenomena taking place in this interesting and important for the Poland's economy area.

Summary of the Report - Janusz Chojna

Chapter 1
Foreign direct investment in the world at the time of crisis - Agata Wancio

Chapter 2
Barriers and incentives for foreign direct investment in Brazil - Ewa Duchnowska

Chapter 3
Western Balkans - a new alternative for foreign investors? - Agata Wancio

Chapter 4
Foreign direct investment in the automotive industry in the new EU Member States - the current state nd development prospects - Łukasz Ambroziak

Chapter 5
Assessment of Poland's attractiveness for foreign investors compared to other Central and Eastern European countries - Piotr Ważniewski

Chapter 6
Foreign direct investment in Poland according to data of the National Bank of Poland - Jan Przystupa

Chapter 7
Foreign-owned companies in Poland according to data of the Central Statistical Office - Izabella Zagoździńska

Chapter 8
The role of foreign-owned companies in Poland's national economy - Janusz Chojna

Chapter 9
Share of foreign-owned companies in Poland's foreign trade - Janusz Chojna

Chapter 10
Foreign-owned companies in the sphere of trade in Poland - FDI volume and structure as well as consequences thereof - Urszula Kłosiewicz-Górecka

Chapter 11
Financial condition of foreign-owned companies compared to domestic entities in the SME sector - Zdzisław Wołodkiewicz-Donimirski

Chapter 12
Reactions of foreign-owned companies to the change of business situation in 2008 - Krzysztof Marczewski

Chapter 13
Foreign investment and the Economy Competitiveness Integrated Model - Elżbieta Małgorzata Jagiełło

Conclusions - Janusz Chojna