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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 …

We call for the immediate abolition of the so-called "Green Certificates" as a requirement for admission to commercial, entertainment and other public facilities in Bulgaria. We welcome the government's forecasts that by March 20 there will be almost no need for any restrictive measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19, including green certificates. However, the TEAM believes that ...

This text was originally published in the collection "2020: Inside and Beyond" It was already clear in March that 2020 would not be easy for the government of Boyko Borisov. A state of emergency was declared just days after the first registered case of COVID-19. This was followed by a collapse in economic activity, a spike in unemployment and …

The second wave of the Covid-19 epidemic and the enormous difficulties of the Bulgarian healthcare system in dealing with it have brought to public attention issues surrounding the functioning of healthcare, which were already making their way to the forefront of important public topics. One of these issues is related to the size, training and remuneration of the medical …

Bulgaria is entering a second lockdown. The entire education system is switching back to remote mode, restaurants and malls are closing, and even sporting events, which are without an audience anyway, are stopping. There are several conclusions from all this. The main one is that the comparison of running a country with driving a jeep has received another …

Last week, the Association of Language Centers in Bulgaria joined the growing number of professional associations that asked the government to provide tax breaks due to difficulties related to the Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting economic crisis. As expected, given the existing problems with face-to-face learning in classrooms. Schools are losing clients from …

For 2021, an increase in the budget of the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) by approximately BGN 312 million is planned. Unlike the previous year, this time it is nominal - within 7.2%, for comparison in 2019 - 2020 it was 9.1%. The main items on which these …

Mass restrictions are back. As the pandemic has escalated in recent weeks, a number of countries in Europe have re-imposed closures of most public facilities and businesses. Given that we are only at the beginning of the “cold” season of the year, the horizon for clearing the current escalation in the pandemic situation is very …

Every “smart” additional dollar invested in Bulgarian healthcare could yield a return of $3.4 through a larger and healthier workforce, reduced need for care among the elderly, and increased productivity among people now approaching retirement age. Such an investment could yield a 37% drop in the overall level of …

Many of the policies that our and foreign leaders are proposing in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic can be described as Keynesian, named after the English economist John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946). He was born in Cambridge, UK, his basic education was in mathematics, he listened to lectures on economics from brilliant scholars such as …