Macroeconomic Monitor
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2013

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 The regulation is “in the name of the people”, who will have to bear the secondary effects of it when it is repealed (as is expected) in a year.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 The regulation is “in the name of the people”, who will have to bear the secondary effects of it when it is repealed (as is expected) in a year.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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Market, not good governance in Bulgaria

Darik Radio has published the Charter for Good Governance of Bulgaria 2013-2018. The document, authored by over 20 experts and analysts, aims to draw public attention to priority areas for the Bulgarian economy and society. It examines the problems of these areas and proposes reforms that will push Bulgaria …

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Everything is going according to plan for the elections. GERB and BSP

Observing the wiretapping scandal, one is reminded of the words of Niccolo Machiavelli that "those deeds that are undesirable to the subjects, rulers should assign to others to do, and those that are desirable they should perform themselves." The Renaissance philosopher's thought can be directly attributed to the statements of Tsvetan Tsvetanov...

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Are Bulgarian producers more special?

Representatives of the "Made in Bulgaria" union accuse (some) of the retail chains in the country of monopoly and unfair practices aimed at extracting maximum profit and "eating" the profits of local producers.

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