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3    DIAGNOSIS AND DEVELOPMENT TRENDS

3.1    DEVELOPMENT AND COMPETITIVE POSITION OF

WESTERN POLAND IN RELATION TO ENTIRE POLAND AND THE EUROPEAN UNION AND DEVELOPMENT TRENDS

According to the Regional Competitiveness lndex 2013 (RCI) for the EU-27 regions, all Polish regions were below the European average, and voivodeships of Western Poland were in classes with the smallest deviation from the mean values (map 1).

On the one hand it indicates a favourable situation of the macro-region against the whole country, on the other it points to some deficits on European scalę.

Regional Competitiveness Report 2013, published by the European Commission places voivodeships of Western Poland in places between 190 and 209 among 262 regions of the European Union.

Western Poland is characterized by lower levels of socio-economic development,

as measured by the value of gross domestic product (per capita), than in the neighbouring foreign regions, especially German (map 2). The analysis of the average growth ratę of GDP per capita in the voivodeships of the macro-region in 2009-2011 and itsrelationtothe national and the EU average indicatetwo speedsof development processes taking place in Western Poland. The leaders (with a growth ratę of GDP per capita above the national average) are Dolnośląskie Voivodeship and Wielkopolskie Voivodeship²⁴⁾. In 2011, they were in the group of regions catching up the fastest with the average level of GDP per capita for the EU, with respectively 73% and 69% of the average. The average GDP per capita for the macro-region was

Dziemianowicz W., Szlachta J., Diagnoza strategiczna Polski Zachodniej, 2011. _