“…To sum up the analysis, changes in the role of the industrial and service sectors in the economy were relatively slight and followed a general trend in civilisational development towards an increase in the share of services in employment and in their contribution to gross value added. Still, worth noting is the relatively large share of industry in Poland, also characteristic of other countries of CE Europe, and its relative stabilisation, unlike in West European states where the share of industry keeps declining, as also pointed out in earlier works (Rachwał 2011). Changes in the branch structures of industry and services over the analysed period were slight, with a faint upward tendency in the share of more modern branches, especially in manufacturing, at the cost of traditional ones.…”