Privatization and Post-Privatization as a Type of Industrial Policies - In order to examine the role of the core executive in the privatization process in Bulgaria, this report is divided into three parts. The first contains background information and relevant data concerning the country's privatization programs and highlights some features, which, according to our sources, most characterize it . Based on an overview of the political background within which the institutional structures and procedures for privatization have been designed and developed, the second part illustrates the constellation of core executive actors and institutions involved in privatization, their policy styles, the resources that they have at their disposal and the constraints under which they operate. The concluding section highlights some overall patterns of Bulgaria's privatization process and summarizes our findings with regard to the role that the core executive plays within it. The third part deals with post-privatization matters.
2001
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Principles of the Dialogue Between the Society, its Elected Representatives and the Government (in Bulgarian only).
What Exists
is Possible: FDI Prospects and Policies in Bulgaria - Bulgarian
economy happened to be resilient to external shock, but more so after
the introduction of the currency board arrangement in 1997. It is not
simply a merit of the arrangement per se but, practically speaking, it
has helped to follow set of policies, which eventually offset negative
developments on the international markets.
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Aspects of
Land Consolidation in Bulgaria - The issue of
land consolidation is especially important for developing and post-communist
countries, where land consolidation presupposes implementation of a radical
land reform, involving various forms of land redistribution and land restitution.
Land consolidation is aimed at optimizing agricultural land use and is
usually pointed out as an important step in enhancing the agricultural
and environment-friendly development of a country.
2000
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Rules, Regulations,
and Transaction Costs in Transition Bulgaria - This
report presents the findings of a study made by Yordanka Gancheva, Researcher
at the Institute for Market Economics, Sofia, within the framework of
the project on Rules, Regulations and Transaction Costs in Transition
Bulgaria funded under the Individual Research Support Scheme of the Open
Society Support Foundation, Prague.
2000 (File size 265KB)
The Shadow
Economy in Bulgaria
- Harvard University, Agency for Economic Analisys
and Forcasting, IME. Bulgarian GDP statistics using revenue approach give
growth rates 2 percentage points lower than the expenditure approach for
1998 and 1999. In other words data based on what people actually spend
show 5.4% (1998) and 4.4% (1999). GDP growth, while official figure are
3.5% and 2.4%, respectively. This is evidence that there are underreported
incomes. It is of interest for statistical and economic policy purposes
to have more detailed information about the discrepancy between official
statistics and activities not covered by the official statistical system.
It is particularly interesting to know the size and structure of unreported,
hidden economic activities (shadow economy).
2000 (File size 203KB)
The Economic
and Social Impact of Refugees on the Host Country: Bulgaria
- The objective of this report and the surveys upon which
it is based is to help rethink the role of refugees in Bulgaria and other
societies. The Bulgarian government has just adopted and is currently
implementing a new legal framework for dealing with refugees. This report
takes Bulgaria as a model country and aims to assess the impact of asylum
seekers and refugees. As one of the few such reports written, and the
first for Bulgaria, it is focused on the identification of costs related
to refugees as they apply to the refugees themselves, to government institutions
(not only those that deal exclusively with refugees but also those that
have more or less remote input to the refugee process), and to non-governmental
and international organizations.
2000 (File size 119KB)
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Bulgarian.
Mortgage
Financing in Bulgaria
- This paper is especially redrafted for the needs
of the USAID Pension Reform Project and CARANA Corp. Round Table on Mortgage
Bonds Horizon as Long Term Investment (October 23, 2000, Sofia). Along
with IME, OECD has the copyrights for that early version. The current
version is completely reedited and updated; the only missing data are
on the housing industry developments in the recent years, which become
available when the paper was ready for print. The copyrights of this version
belong to IME and the authors.
2000 (File size 309KB)
Mortgage tax
cuts - 
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it in
Bulgarian
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Municipal
Entry Barriers and Systemic Sources of Corruption The
purpose of this report is to summarise the results of a study conducted
by the Institute for Market Economics within the framework of the project
Municipal Entry Barriers: Retail Merchants and Service Providers, funded
by the Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative, Open Society
Institute, Budapest.
2000
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Evaluation
of the post-privatization monitoring system in Bulgaria - These
recommendations and conclusions are drawn from a CASE research foundation
& IME survey, based on in-depth structured interviews with 11 companies.
2000
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size 52KB)
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Bulgarian.
Fiscal Effects
of the Privatization: the Case of Poland and Bulgaria
- At the request of the Bulgarian authorities, IME,
in co-operation with Bulgarian counterparts, assists in implementing structural
reforms in the Bulgarian economy. The assistance involves developing and
carrying out reform programs and evaluating their results in priority
areas of structural and institutional reforms, with particular reference,
among others, to the process of the ownership transformation. This includes
the privatization and post-privatization monitoring system.
Available in Bulgarian only
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Pension
Reform Models in Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe
There is no clear-cut solution to the problems involved
in different individual pension reforms. However, thanks mostly to the
Latin America's experience there is little doubt as to which measures
of these reforms work and which do not.
1999
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Legal
and Regulatory Reform; Impacts on Private Sector Growth -
This report summarizes results from USAID-funded research
on Legal and Regulatory Reform in Bulgaria That Affects Private Sector
Growth. It deals mostly with laws endorsed by the Parliament" in 1998-1999.
The general objective was to assess the level of regulatory reforms in
the country that affect the private sector's performance.
2000
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Conditions
for Long-term Growth and Prosperity in the Balkans
- In Search of Growth: Bulgaria's Lessons and Policy
Options. IME report under the auspices of the Regional Networking Project,
funded by the USAID with the kind support from Freedom House.
1999
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The
Balkans in 2010: Economic Scenarios - This report
is based upon the following: IME's own research into different aspects
of Balkan economies, especially those in transition, conducted over the
last four years; study of recent literature on these economies and relevant
background political and economic developments; a survey of available
concepts of postwar political order in South-eastern Europe; and interviews
with economists from all Balkan countries. Questionnaires were especially
designed for the purposes of this report.
1997
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Bulgaria:
Current Economic Situation and Long-term Growth Prospects -
Our goal was to propose foundations for a long-term (fifteen
years) country risk forecast. This is a first attempt for Bulgaria. The
idea is to follow probable scenarios in order to give recommendations
on policies geared toward avoiding negative developments.
1997
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The
Bulgaria Competitiveness Analysis Exercise - The
ultimate goal of the Bulgaria Competitiveness Analysis Exercise is to
generate increased business investment and activity, and to help Bulgarian
business to become internationally competitive.
2000
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Bulgarian.