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Bulgaria is in the midst of a serious demographic transition that will shrink its population at one of the highest …, Bulgaria's demographic transition will exert significant fiscal pressures and depress the economic growth in the medium and … long term. However, the results also demonstrate that the Government of Bulgaria can play a significant role in mitigating …
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(Bulgaria, Mexico, Morocco, the Netherlands, Tanzania, and Vietnam) and proposes a new methodology for collecting cross …
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This paper looks at Bulgaria's industrial restructuring through the lenses of its evolving specialization in … can be summarized as follows: (1) Developments in Bulgaria's exports, its major drivers and factor content, during the … transition economies that have stayed the reform course. (2) The evolution of Bulgaria's total exports in terms of factor …
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This paper analyzes the process of institutional transformation in Bulgaria and assesses the extent to which it has … dimensions. The external dimension relates to backbone services facilitating trade and Bulgaria's trade policies. As far as the … latter are concerned, the discussion highlights tensions that emerge from duality-regional versus multilateral-in Bulgaria …
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Although it is widely accepted that financial development is associated with higher growth, the evidence on the channels through which credit affects growth on the micro-level is scant. Using data from a cross section of Bulgarian firms, the authors estimate the impact of access to credit (as...
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The paper presents a fiscal estimate of Bulgaria's perspective European Union (EU) membership. The projected EU funds … is the pure effect on the national budget. The paper concludes that Bulgaria is likely to benefit from large net inflows …
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(Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Russia, Slovak Republic, and Slovenia) from the early transition period up …
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paper benchmarks product market policies in Bulgaria to those of OECD countries by estimating OECD indicators of Product … markets. Comparison with OECD countries reveals that Bulgaria has made substantial progress towards less restrictive product …
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The paper uses repeated cross-sections of Bulgaria's household survey data (1995, 1997, 2001, and 2003) and a …
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The author seeks to determine the main factors behind poor labor market outcomes in Bulgaria. Unemployment in Bulgaria …
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