Abstract
This paper focuses on regional aspects of the socio-economic transformation in Poland in the years 1990-2000. In the first section basic macroeconomic trends are outlined. In the second, regional disparities and spatial adaptation to the new socio-economic system after ten years of the transformation are presented. The regional system consists of 16 new voivodeships, and the development measured employed are the regional GDP and unemployment rate. On the scale of the development level strong, average and weak regions are distinguished, as well as winners and losers of the transformation. In the third section, an attempt is made to identify spatial regularities in the regional development of Poland. Regional polarisation is described on the basis of a continuous distribution of the potential index in the form of the ratio of income potential to population potential, and it is interpreted in terms of the core-periphery model.
