WARSAW: Polish growth should accelerate to around three percent next year, as data point to an economic recovery, a member of the central bank's Monetary Policy Council (MPC) said on Monday.
"Our projection shows that it (growth in 2013) should be around 1.3 percent, maybe 1.5 percent," rate-setter Anna Zielinska-Glebocka told TVN CNBC channel in an interview.
"Next year may be better than the government perceives, I hope it will be at around 3 percent ... Everything seems to be pointing to the better."
Strong growth in Poland's manufacturing sector and some other upbeat indicators suggest the economy is recovering after coming close to its first recession in more than two decades earlier this year.
Gross domestic product grew by 0.8 percent year-on-year in the second quarter, up from 0.5 percent in the first three months. Economists polled by Reuters expect growth to reach an annual two percent by the end of this year.
The central bank's policymakers have so far said they would refrain from any moves on interest rates until at least the end of 2013, with investors expecting the gradual economic recovery to yield a rate hike in the third quarter next year.
The MPC's decision to keep the main interest rate at a record low of 2.5 percent this month was widely expected. It follows an easing campaign totalling 225 basis points which the bank concluded in July.
Several central bank policymakers have recently said that rates would remain where they are possibly until the middle of next year. Zielinska-Glebocka reiterated her view that they should remain stable.
"I think it would be good if we managed to keep rates flat for some time, that it would be good for the economy," she said. "For the time being I don't envisage any rate cut."
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