for example labour force participation may decrease further due to the withdrawal of older workers from the labour force as a result of the lowering the statutory retirement age in late this policy may have a disproportionate impact on rural locales where there is a higher concentration of senior residents this includes the network of national roads railway lines airports and harbour ports a territorial lens on such overarching policies can help ensure that they are adequately tailored to place poland s national spatial development concept offers guidance on how to coordinate and implement public policies that have a significant territorial impact however in practice its coordinative ability is weak oecd b