establishing capitalist reforms in Bulgaria after 1989. In this frame, trust building, as a key challenge for a successful … "failing" i.e. "fragile state" like Bulgaria. Of specific significance is the analysis of agency in which individuals possess … transition/consolidation theories but rather they confirm the validity of the <i>multiple modernities</i> approach proposed by S …

establishing capitalist reforms in Bulgaria after 1989. In this frame, trust building, as a key challenge for a successful … "failing" i.e. "fragile state" like Bulgaria. Of specific significance is the analysis of agency in which individuals possess … transition/consolidation theories but rather they confirm the validity of the multiple modernities approach proposed by S …

foreign banks in Bulgaria and argue that the current predominance of foreign banks is unlikely to be permanent, even without … government action. Foreign banks have entered Bulgaria several times—before World War I, again after that war, and after the fall …

challenges of the dairy farming development during the post-communist transition and EU integration is outlined. Third, major …. Nevertheless, diverse risks associated with the dairy farming have not been effectively governed and persist during the transition …

the transition from the socialist system. The paper explores issues in the design of tax bases and tax structures in the … transition and argues that transition economies would need to adopt a lower and simpler tax structure than the ones prevailing in …

Bulgaria is moving toward a food processing and marketing system which resembles that of Western Europe and the U ….S. Large grocery chains from Germany, Austrai and Turkey are building supermarkets and hypermarkets in Bulgaria’s larger cities …. However, income in Bulgaria remains much lower than in Western Europe and most Bulgarian consumers cannot afford to shop in …

In most of the European transition economies regional policy is a relatively new phenomenon, given the absence of a … develop also in the transition period. This was in many respects due to the relative hysteresis of the transition process in … process. Regional policy in Bulgaria has for all analytical purposes been notably absent in the 1990s and only started shaping …

democratic market society of Bulgaria today. Reform was clearly needed in content, organization, approach, didactics and … methodology. We argue here that while Bulgaria has advantages in reforming its higher education system, little progress has been …