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It was very easy to distinguish among the developing countries in the seventies a group of countries characterized with a high dynamics of industrial production growth and even higher dynamics of export growth. This group of countries known as newly-industrialized countries includes : Argentina, Brazil, India, Indonesia, South Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Pakistan, Singapore, Taiwan and some other counties. The article is an attempt at evaluation of this phenomenon, its causes and prospects of its further development against the background of the economic situation in the world. The author points at dangers facing the Polish export, especially of the light ind ustry products, caused by growing competitiveness of exports from the above mentioned group of countries.