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According to recent data Portuguese GDP per capita is lower than that of countries that are not yet generally seen as highly developed like Poland, Estonia or Czech Republic (all of them joined EU in 2004, many years after Portugal did).
The same goes for HDI (Human Development Index) in which Portugal is 8 places lower than Poland is ranked and Poles themselved often complain that their country is ‘so poor and still backward’. What are the reasons behind Portugal being relatively underdeveloped? Economically speaking the country is much poorer than its big neighbour Spain. Poland has just only communistic bloc, and its long period of impoverishment and returned to capitalism three years after Portugal has already joined European Union.
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