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Of course, given the context and who produced the report, the message is appropriate. > To create a model enabling them to calculate the benefits of EU members

Of course, given the context and who produced the report, the message is appropriate. > To create a model enabling them to calculate the benefits of EU membership, PIE used what is known as the synthetic control method, which assumes the creation of a counterfactual scenario based on the reproduction of the country under study from among countries with similar characteristics that remained outside of the EU. Essentially shows the benefit of free trade and access to preferential trade agreement. If Poland had a MFN with BRICS, they may have grown probably at a higher rate, who knows?

mytailorisrich 3y ago
"Countries with similar characteristics that remained outside the EU" is quite unclear. It this implies countries in the region that could potentially join the list is now so limited and skewed towards what I would call "problem countries" that there are probably a massive bias to take into account. And that includes countries from other regions then it seems like a highly subjective comparison. By population, the countries most similar to Poland are Ukraine, Morocco, and Uzbekistan... So, yes, Poland has done better than all of them. And?