Research 2018

Regional Profiles: Recommendations for Development (2018)		The Road to Fiscal Decentralization
This paper reviews some of the main problems of the regional development in Bulgaria, identified by the Institute for Market Economics (IME) as a result of our work on the subject. \| Full text \|		Sharing a fifth of the income tax revenue would increase municipal revenues by nearly BGN 675 million or by 30.4%. \| Full text \|
The Effects of Economic Centres on Peripheral Municipalities		The Economic Centres of Bulgaria
This study is based on the “Economic centres in Bulgaria” study, and aims at explaining the processes taking place within the individual centres. \| Full text \|		In 2017, the IME set out to map the borders of Bulgaria’s economic centres. Our goal was to go beyond the country’s administrative and territorial division and establish new internal boundaries, based solely on natural economic processes. \| Full text \|

Regional Profiles: Recommendations for Development (2018)

This paper reviews some of the main problems of the regional development in Bulgaria, identified by the Institute for Market Economics (IME) as a result of our work on the subject.

| Full text |

Sharing a fifth of the income tax revenue would increase municipal revenues by nearly BGN 675 million or by 30.4%.

| Full text |

The Effects of Economic Centres on Peripheral Municipalities

The Economic Centres of Bulgaria

This study is based on the “Economic centres in Bulgaria” study, and aims at explaining the processes taking place within the individual centres.

| Full text |

In 2017, the IME set out to map the borders of Bulgaria’s economic centres. Our goal was to go beyond the country’s administrative and territorial division and establish new internal boundaries, based solely on natural economic processes.

| Full text |

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