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Since emerging broken from communism, Poland has transformed itself into an economic powerhouse – with a GDP per capita set to overtake Britain’s in the next decade or so. But can its success continue indefinitely?

Matthew Partridge: It has now been nearly 25 years since you coined the term Brics for Brazil, Russia, India and China, and the four nations have embarked on very different trajectories. Which one do

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