Macroeconomic Monitor
Начало / 2022 / юли

2022.07

Delayed access to healthcare due to the Covid-19 pandemic – a look at Bulgaria.

Authors: Stoyan Panchev, Arkadi Sharkov We predict over 2,300 undiagnosed cases of malignant neoplasms for 2020 and 2021. We report a 20% and 23% decrease in the number of hospitalizations for 2020 and 2021, respectively, or a total of 1.1 million less for the two years combined. We report missed activities in hospital medical care …

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It is neither right nor market-oriented for businesses to choose between Gazprom and "pig in a poke" energy prices

At the last minute, the parliament extended the program for compensation of the industry with the price of electricity. Although clumsily played by the Petkov government and with contradictory ideological and economic justification, the program was somewhat inevitable, due to the massive compensations distributed in Western Europe (Spain and France have ceilings below 50 euros), and …

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