Macroeconomic Monitor
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2013.05

New election manipulation. So what?

Amidst the rising cacophony, the question remained somehow unasked: “So what?” How exactly does yesterday's incident differ from the trivial practice we witness in all elections, with the exception perhaps of our amateurism?

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How to (not) vote. Elections to extend the transition

Tomorrow, Bulgarians will have the unique opportunity to choose who will not reform the health, pension and education systems; who will redistribute part of their wealth; who will support one or another monopoly and who will worsen the state of the economy. In other words - tomorrow, Bulgarians will vote to preserve the status quo.

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What should we expect from the "new pluralism" of (non)ethnic parties?

Less than a week before the elections, the fact that for the first time in the history of Bulgarian parliamentarism the Turkish minority will be represented by two different political formations seems to be underestimated. The topic of ethnic parties and analyzing politics through this prism are taboo due to the legal discrepancies between theory and practice…

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Guest article: The failed bypass of healthcare reform

Contrary to conventional logic, which says that the interim government should not act populist, it has made an extremely harmful intervention in the pharmaceutical market. The regulation is “in the name of the people”, who will have to bear the secondary effects of it when it is repealed (as is expected) in a year.

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The failed bypass of healthcare reform

Contrary to conventional logic, which says that the interim government should not act populist, it has made an extremely harmful intervention in the pharmaceutical market. The regulation is “in the name of the people”, who will have to bear the secondary effects of it when it is repealed (as is expected) in a year.

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An American lesson for Bulgarian education

The quality of education in Bulgaria is a widely acknowledged problem. Commentators who rarely agree on other topics nod in the affirmative when it comes to educational reform. Unfortunately, the proposals for changing the situation in public education circulating in the public sphere are, to put it mildly, unoriginal, if not potentially harmful. This is also evident …

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Unions, friend or foe of workers?

The standard story that the media inundates us with on the occasion of May Day always brings to the fore the resolutely positive role of trade unions in improving working conditions and pay for all employees. Even if we ignore, to put it mildly, controversial facts from their history such as violence, destruction of property and …

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