Author: Yaroslav Romanchuk Translation: Marina Zaharieva The world economy is synchronously falling into the zone of another powerful turbulence. This is no coincidence, given all the efforts of central banks and governments. It is they who take care of the synchronization in the inflation of market bubbles of various assets and resources. It is they who succumb to lobbying …
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What was the biggest failure of the Transition?
To answer this question, we must first answer the opposite - what are the great successes of the Transition? Because, somewhat paradoxically, its greatest successes also contain its greatest failures. The Transition in Bulgaria actually occurred only in 1997, after a period of severe economic cataclysm. The fact that ...
More »Reform to improve access to healthcare in Bulgaria
|Full text of the analysis| The results of the study of the Bulgarian market show the conclusions of previous analyses, such as the one commissioned by the European Commission in 2019, concerning the positive effects of the entry of biosimilar medicines into European markets. In other words, price competition between biosimilar medicines and reference medicines (together and among themselves) allows …
More »The second pension pillar and the fictional pyramids
Every year, with the voting of each new state budget, the topic of pensions is invariably raised. This year, the debate has been extremely heated, even reaching the point of statements that the second pillar of the pension system is a pyramid scheme. However, anyone who claims such a thing is lying to you, or simply does not …
More »The failure of green socialism in East Germany
Socialism, unlike capitalism, causes severe damage to the environment. To give a clear example of this, but also to avoid the subjective factor of domestic reality before and after 1989, let's look at what the situation was in East Germany (GDR) compared to West Germany (FRG). In 1968 …
More »What is the problem with second (private) pensions?
This week, a huge hysteria broke out in the public sphere regarding the payment of "second" pensions from mandatory private pension funds. It became clear that the amount of the combination of state and private pension may turn out to be less than if you take only the state one. And because no one explained what it actually …
More »Germany is on the brink of recession, and the ECB can do nothing
Half of the largest banks in the Eurozone would not survive more than 6 months in a liquidity shortage in the market Germany's GDP rose by only 0.1% in the third quarter compared to the second quarter of this year Stock market indices are performing well despite the problems in the real economy of Europe Pension fund yields …
More »EKIP in the media for small municipalities, healthcare and Budget 2020
In September, the EKIP presented the analysis - "Economic Status and Development of Small Regional Centers in Bulgaria". The focus was on the 8 regional centers with the smallest urban population in the country since 2007-2008. These are the municipalities of Montana, Lovech, Silistra, Razgrad, Targovishte, Kardzhali, Kyustendil and Smolyan. The data we examined include both …
More »Industrial production falls throughout the 3rd quarter
(Click on the infographic for a larger size) Source: NSI Comment The latest NSI data show that industrial production fell for the fourth consecutive month in September by 0.14% year-on-year. It is noticeable that the decline is slowing, so we may see some growth in October, but we doubt that this …
More »What are the biggest problems of Budget 2020?
Extremely quickly and without almost any in-depth discussions, the 2020 Budget was adopted on first reading this week. We cannot help but be left with the impression that the budget for next year was very much overrun. And it shouldn't be, especially considering that this year the economic …
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