To safeguard inclusiveness, it is crucial that the government also put in place appropriate policies to ensure that no one is left behind during this transformation and that all firms and all citizens can equally participate in and benefit from it. Between 1990 and 2015, Poland managed to close the GDP per capita gap with the OECD average by more than 25 percentage points (Figure 1.1). Since the start of its collaboration with the OECD under the Partners in Transition Programme in 1990, Poland's economy has undergone sweeping change, with privatisation of many state-owned enterprises and liberalisation of prices, trade and capital flows. Just 7% of employees worked long hours in Poland in 2014, compared to 13% in the OECD, and the homicide rate was just 1% in 2013, compared to 4% in the OECD.