In full growth, the tertiary sector represented nearly 70 % of the GDP in 2003.

Whereas in the middle of the years 1990, a Pole on two had never had contact with a bank, the banking environment strongly developed following its liberalization and the arrival of the foreign investors. The fastest progress was made in the growth of the number of commercial agencies and the diffusion of the credit cards. Warsaw Stock Exchange became the principal money market in the central and eastern european countries in terms of volume of exchanges. The number of companies with dimensions has triplet since 1998 and the stock exchange capitalization was multiplied by four during the same time, to reach more then 100 billion PLN (25 billion EUR) during 2003.

The sector of the logistics and the distribution continues its rationalization and its development. The large signs generalists and specialized count from now for more than 30 % of the total of the Poland distribution. The France and its companies also benefit of the growth of the sector of health. The data processing departments are in rise and technologies of information have a good potential, not fully exploited because of the international economic situation of the sector. In spite of a fall since the beginning of the decade, Poland is still one of the fifteen tourist destinations most visited in the world and its infrastructure of hotels develops.

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