The issue of sludge utilization from wastewater treatment in agriculture is an important socio-economic and environmental problem in the European Union (EU) and Bulgaria. It is becoming topical issue along with constantly growing amount of produced wastewater treatment sludge, deficiency of...

This research attempts to make a brief review and analysis of youth unemployment rate in the labour market in Bulgaria. It briefly describes programmes and measures existing at the Bulgarian labour market and implemented though Employment Promotion Act and National Employment Action Plan. It...

In recent years, modern society has faced a number of challenges related to the achievement of global goals for sustainable development. Industrial enterprises are challenged to generate, stimulate, and demand changes in networks and supply chains, but these challenges require flexibility and...

In the summer of 1931, the Austro-German banking crisis spread to Romania and Bulgaria. In the Romanian case, the management of the crisis confronted three types of protagonists - politicians, bankers and central bankers - and positions about the relevant attitude to adopt, in particular to...

This paper provides insights into the drivers of the resilience of the Fintech sector in Emerging Europe by analyzing the performance of 128 Bulgarian Fintech companies in the period 2000-2021. Our results show that larger and better capitalized Fintech companies which outsource their non-core...

The economic narratives of Southeast Europe during the first part of the 20th century are currently being re-written. A story of failed industrialisation and delayed modernisation during the Interwar period has dominated since the pioneering work of Gerschenkron, but not enough aggregate data...

This chapter introduces the digital finance cluster in Bulgaria and analyses how it performs against the Four Fundamentals introduced in Breznitz (2021). The Fintech sector in Bulgaria traces its origins in the Communist Era, with the first applications of digital financial technologies aiming...