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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.