For instance, South Korea is the eleventh global economy with th the voting share of 0.77%, which makes it hold 28 position among the IMF participants; whereas as per analyses of Kelkar V. et al. ”The International Monetary Fund: entitled Integration and Democratization in the 21st Century”, presented at the meeting of G24 in Manila, 17 - 18 March 2005, the total vote of Brazil, China and India in international institutions is equal to the total of Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands, whereas the total GDP of the first group of countries based on PPP is fourfold higher, with a 29 times larger population. 2  BIS Review 64/2006  Chart 1. Global demographic trends – the world population according to UN forecasts  LO – left axis (LA) PO – right axis (RA) Africa – (LA) Europe – (RA) The rest of the world – (RA) Asia – (LA) North America – (RA) Note: „LA”, „RA” mean the left and right axis, data in million persons. Source: the UNO, http://esa.un.org/unpp/  Hence the demographic developments, supported by the globalization mechanisms which have led to the establishment of the global labour market, will drive Asia and possibly some areas of Africa to become fierce competitors for Europe and the US in the forthcoming decades. There are many estimates that show the sizes of particular economies in the decades to come, based on demographic trends, assumptions concerning the long-term growth of performance, or changes in real FX rates.
Polska, Czechy, Słowacja.” [“The future of labour. Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.”] concludes that out of the three analysed countries, the culture of innovation has the smallest chances for development in Poland. The author recommends to launch a modernisation project under the name Polska 2.0. It appears that in the homo sapiens globalus society of the 21 st century, many of the terms used in the debate on a unified Poland or the IV Republic of Poland, should adopt totally new meanings. Solidarity should not mean an algorithm for sharing the growth fruit, but should mean a policy which will allow the greatest possible number of Poles to function well on the global labour market. Patriotism should not confine to the roots of Poland, the tradition of the great fellow countrymen, but should also have a global character, i.e. lead to such behaviour and policies that will enable Poland as a country and its citizens to become successful in the fast globalizing economy, whilst maintaining close ties of Poles with their homeland. In this context, it is worth raising a few questions. -  Is the Polish educational system able to deliver a sufficient number of specialists in the fields on which the success of Poland in the global economy depends, in particular engineers, IT specialists, people with multi-language skills, incl. e.g. Chinese? 18  See the study by Aguiar M. et al. (2006) referred to in footnote 2. 19  For example, Baily M., Lawrence R. op. cit.