Macroeconomic Monitor
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2013

The truth about the budget update

On Friday, parliament will discuss the government's budget update proposal at third reading. This comes after the president vetoed the legislative changes a week ago because, according to him, the proposed increase in state spending is opaque. But the main question we need to ask ourselves is - do we want …

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What can we learn from South Korea's education system?

It is often discussed how Bulgaria (as well as other countries from the former socialist bloc) should adopt Western culture and production methods. Unfortunately, the West, having quickly forgotten its lessons from the socialism of the last century, has with a cheerful and naive leap set off on the path to the same system that it spat out so much...

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Distrust in the National Social Security Institute

The upcoming deal with POK Doverie has caused serious controversy, with one of the most widespread opinions being Dimitar Sabev's article "Distrust in the Second Pillar", published on the Solidarna Bulgaria website. As we can assume from the title of the media outlet, the article's bias is quite anti-market (after all, as we have been told many times before...

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Five years later, the Eurozone is still dreaming of growth

With the deepening of the debt problems in the Eurozone in 2008 and the subsequent entry into recession, promises at the parliamentary level began to multiply, ambitions sharpened, and the path to growth seemed so clearly outlined that ... five years later, it is hard to believe how far we actually are from the dreamed-of recovery.

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Skyscrapers and Crises II: Bulgaria

Following the first part of the series on the link between tall building construction and impending economic collapses, Kalin Mikov takes the theory behind this relationship and applies it to Bulgaria. If you haven't read the previous part, do so HERE.

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