Research Focus
Club “Economika 2000” concentrates its endeavours on the following main areas:
- Real Economy
- Regional Economy
- Social Policy
- Environmental Management
- Public Administration
Real Economy
- Interaction among the government and the markets
- Corporate and industrial restructuring in Bulgaria and other East European countries
- Enterprises’ behaviour in the transition period and the role of the foreign and domestic investments
- Functioning of market institutions and processes
- Barriers to the establishment of modern corporate governance
- Social effects of privatization and enterprise restructuring
Regional Economy
- Analyses of the socio-economic development at regional, district and national level
- Study and justification of decisions on fees, taxes, tariffs
- Methodologies for analysis and evaluation of social, economic and financial discrepancies among municipalities
- Inter-governmental transfers and application of modern tools for municipal budget and finance management.
Social Policy
- Social protection system, social insurance, social assistance, pension and health-insurance reform
- Labour markets and unemployment
- Poverty
- Social dialogue
- Education
Environmental Management
- Drafting new legislation for environmental protection management in compliance with the EU acquis communautaire
- Development of environmental protection strategies and business plans at national, regional and local level
- Institutional development of environmental organisations
Public Administration
- Institutional building of the public administration
- Presentation of new methods for public administration management
- Preparation of the public administration for the European Union accession
- Training needs assessment
