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People

Population	7.66 mln
Population growth	-1%
Life expectancy	73 years
Net migration	-43,078

Economy

GDP	$39.55 bln
- per capita	$5,163
- growth rate	6%
FDI, net inflows	$8.97 bln

Infrastructure

Cellphone users	129%
Internet users	31%
High-tech exports	6%

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Sources of Income Inequality: Empirical Evidence from Bulgaria

gdn.int –

The paper contributes to the empirical research on the micro-determinants of income inequality in Southeast European transition countries. The analysis utilizes data from a representative survey of 3,300 Bulgarian households conducted in 2007 and quantifies income differentiation effects related to certain socio- demographic characteristics. Quantile regression analysis reveals positive net effects of the degree of urbanization and the number of employed in the household as well as negative more...

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D C on May 15, 2012

Woody Biomass for Energy

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As woody biomass is expected to remain the most important biomass source by 2020, the report is focused mainly on woody biomass. The rapid expansion of energy production (for transport, electricity, heating and cooling) from biomass derives from the Member States’ planning a staggering increase in feedstock exploitation. This report discusses the greenhouse gas (GHG) performance of biomass as a source of energy as well as the detrimental effects of increased demand for biomass on forests. The more...

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Sonia Hossain on February 01, 2012

The educational attainment, labour market participation and living conditions of young Roma in Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania

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The Roma are one of the largest and most disadvantaged ethnic minorities in the pan-European region. According to diverse sources, the Roma left their ancestral homeland in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent in medieval times and migrated westward, reaching Europe sometime between the 8th and 10th century AD. This paper investigates the educational attainment, employment levels and living conditions of young Roma adults with the aid of population surveys of Bulgaria, Hungary and more...

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D C on January 05, 2012

Impact of economic crises on mental health

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The economic crisis is expected to produce secondary mental health effects that may increase suicide and alcohol death rates. However, the mental health effects of the economic crisis can be offset by social welfare and other policy measures. For example, active labor market programmes aimed at helping people retain or regain jobs counteract the mental health effects of the economic crisis. Family support programmes contribute to counteracting the mental health effects of the crisis. Increasing more...

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Sonia Hossain on January 29, 2012

State of Mediterranean Forests

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Mediterranean forests are considered as one of the biodiversity hotspots in the world. Mediterranean forests are expected to be increasingly exposed to human pressure and climate change. Mediterranean countries are engaged in national forest inventories and monitoring and assessment exercises that, in spite of their richness in terms of data, present some difficulties for extracting valid information at the regional scale. To face this gap, the committee on Mediterranean Forest Questions (Silva more...

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Sonia Hossain on March 04, 2012

Getting Beyond Carry Trade

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The main objective of this paper is to find out what the fundamentals of safe haven currencies are. We analyze a large panel of 52 currencies in advanced and emerging countries over almost 25 years of data. It was found that only a few factors are robustly associated to a safe haven status, most notably the net foreign asset position, an indicator of external vulnerability, and to a lesser extent the absolute size of the stock market, an indicator of market size and development. The interest more...

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Sonia Hossain on March 05, 2012

Species data to go online in open access initiative

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"Research on new species from biodiversity hotspots in the developing world, published in a range of journals, may soon become freely available online as soon as they are published, thanks to a project launched last week."The project is a joint initiative between Pensoft Publishers in Bulgaria, and the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) — a free and collaborative website that aims to document every living species on the planet."Pensoft has developed software that extracts information about individual more...

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John Daly on February 29, 2012

Italy: 'Zero tolerance for Roma'

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For more than a decade international and regional human rights bodies have criticized the Italian government for carrying out forced evictions of Romani communities, and for discrimination against Roma and the failure to ensure their right to adequate housing. Instead of prioritizing measures to improve the housing and living conditions of Romani communities and to address the discrimination that they experience, in recent years Italian authorities have deliberately taken, in the name of more...

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Sonia Hossain on December 07, 2011

Exporting Under Trade Policy Uncertainty

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Policy commitment and credibility are important for inducing agents to make costly, irreversible investments. Policy uncertainty can delay investment and reduce the response to policy change. The author provides theoretical and novel quantitative evidence for these effects by focusing on trade policy, a ubiquitous but often overlooked source of uncertainty, when a firm's cost of export market entry is sunk. Within a dynamic model of heterogeneous firms, the author show that trade policy more...

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Sonia Hossain on December 14, 2011

Life Sentence: Romani Children in Institutional Care

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This study explores the representation and human rights situation of Romani children in institutional care in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Romania and Slovakia. It is the first transnational effort to collect data on the proportion of Romani children in State care and to identify factors that contribute to the over representation of Romani children in institutional care. It is intended to assist policy-makers and advocates in protecting and promoting the rights of Romani more...

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Sonia Hossain on October 11, 2011

Implementing the Hyogo Framework for Action in Europe: advances and challenges 2009-2011

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The main objective of this report is to identify key trends in terms of progress made and challenges faced, at both national and regional levels, through the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) in Europe from 2009 to 2011. It also compares progress made, lessons learned and challenges to overcome with those reported in 2009. This review includes elements based on reports received from countries and regional organizations that responded to the HFA monitoring requirements by more...

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Farina Ahmed on May 01, 2011

Education against violence at school

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Too many schools in Europe continue to be confronted with very serious acts of violence. Incidents include attacks by pupils with or without weapons, bullying and harassment among pupils, sexual violence, acts of hostility and even aggression against teachers by pupils, as well as the use of violence by teachers against pupils. To this end, the Parliamentary Assembly wishes to encourage the design and effective implementation of proactive educational policies against violence at school and in more...

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Sonia Hossain on August 01, 2011

Will the crisis affect the economic recovery in eastern European countries ? evidence from firm level data

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Two sources of growth are firm learning and innovation. Using a unique panel data for 1,686 firms in six countries (Bulgaria, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, and Turkey), this paper applies panel data estimators and Juhn-Murphy Pierce decomposition in order to identify the effects of the global economic crisis on sales growth of innovative and young enterprises in Eastern European countries. The results show that innovative and young firms were significantly more affected by the crisis more...

Added by Zunia on April 01, 2010

Decent work for domestic workers

home.org.sg –

The agenda of the 99th Session of the International Labour Conference in 2010 included an item on decent work for domestic workers. It was considered necessary to adopt international standards on this subject given the historical and continued exclusion of domestic workers, mainly women and girls, from labor protection. This report has been drawn up on the basis of the replies received from governments, employers‟ and workers‟ organizations and the United Nations, and contains the essential more...

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Sonia Hossain on June 06, 2011

Bulgaria - Public expenditure review for agriculture and rural development

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Although Bulgaria now implements the European Union's (EU's) "common" agricultural policy (CAP), national policymakers still maintain responsibility to tailor CAP implementation to meet the specific development needs of the country. The National Rural Development Program (NRDP) very appropriately lays out the challenges that Bulgarian agriculture and rural development face, but the early implementation of a relatively high number of support schemes falls short of adequate administrative more...

Added by Zunia on June 04, 2010

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