title: Structural changes in the Polish and Ukrainian economies against the background of other Central and Eastern European countries
abstract: The aim of this chapter is to present and discuss the structural changes in the GDP of Poland and Ukraine, as a consequence of the institutional changes mentioned in Chapters 1 and 2. This chapter gives an account of macroeconomic context analyzed in the following chapters. Between 1990 and 2017, the GDP share of the Ukrainian industrial sector was steadily declining. This trend was reinforced by political turmoil, variability of domestic demand, decline of international competitiveness, violati