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27.11.2024Evaluation of municipal budgets: how to do it and what to monitor

How much does street lighting cost the taxpayer? What priorities does the municipal budget finance? Can every citizen participate in discussing the finances of their municipality and is their opinion taken into account? We try to answer all these questions in the new IME study "Evaluation of Municipal Budgets: How to Do It and What to Monitor".

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25.11.2024Economic Development of the Districts: Growth, but with increasing inequalities

The ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT area in Regional Profiles 2024 includes categories measuring income and standard of living, the labor market, investments, infrastructure, local taxes, and the work of the administration.

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22.11.2024Blagoevgrad District: low incomes but growing investments

The material is part of the IME study "Regional Profiles: Indicators of Development 2024"

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14.11.2024Presentation of Regional Profiles: Indicators of Development - 2024

For more than ten years now, the Institute for Market Economy has been presenting the only study of its scale and depth on the economic and social development of the regions in Bulgaria. This year, the Regional Profiles expand to 80 indicators, presenting the real picture in the 28 regions.

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14.11.2024Regional Profiles 2024: Economic Growth but with Rising Inequality

For more than ten years now, the Institute for Market Economy has been presenting the only study of its scale and depth on the economic and social development of the regions in Bulgaria. The regional profiles step on 80 indicators representing the real picture in the 28 regions.

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08.11.2024Formula for Poor Municipalities: Centralization + Fragmentation

There is no doubt that decentralization is the right solution in almost all cases. It allows local government and regional communities to take their destiny into their own hands and apply local solutions to local problems that are far from the priorities and vision of the central government. However, the flip side of decentralization is fragmentation – breaking up the state into excessively small pieces prevents effective governance and prevents true autonomy. Bulgaria currently has a relatively high level of centralization and at the same time fragmentation, which is more than visible, as well as its negative consequences.

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16.10.2024Five trends for the municipalities of Sofia (district), Kyustendil and Pernik

The municipalities in these three southwestern regions have a very different economic and social profile - here are the industrial leaders of Sofia (region), which are among the most developed economies of the country as a whole, but also the aging and frozen in time border municipalities of Pernik. However, the overall development trajectory looks positive, especially if they manage to overcome the challenges in terms of human capital and demographics.

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Education and employment: compatibility index ot vocational education and local profile of the economy 2025 29.07.2025

The study analyses the extent to which vocational education in Bulgaria meets the needs of the labour market....

Math talents on the edge of the map 30.06.2025

If you think that mathematics can only be taught and learned well in mathematics high schools or elite...

The municipalities need more own resources and a share of revenues from personal income taxation 26.06.2025

IME analysis shows opportunities for expanding municipalities' financial autonomy. The budget expenditures...

Yambol District - improvement in education results and rising wages, but limited investment and little tourism 06.06.2025

Gross domestic product, incomes and pensions in Yambol district continue to grow. The share of the working...

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