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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.

 

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

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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.  

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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. 

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Other publications from 2018:

  • Local Taxes Continue to Increase | 20.07.2018
  • Which Municipalities Absorb the Mst EU-Funds | 29.06.2018
  • Unemployment in 2017: A Regional Review | 05.04.2018
  • The Labour Market Enters A New Stage of Development | 16.03.2018
  • The Regional Differences in Bulgaria and the EU in the Last Decade | 06.03.2018
  • What do the Economic Centres in Bulgaria Tell Us | 19.01.2018
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