According to Jaewoo Lee, Head of the IMF mission for Bulgaria, inequality in this country keeps growing.
As a measure to provide more resources for social spending, the Fund proposes increasing the maximum social security income without eliminating the flat tax of 10%. IMF experts, who have been in Bulgaria since February 4, have held a series of meetings with government officials, BNB experts, business and non-governmental organizations. The fund assessed the stability of the financial system and the state of the economy in 2019, announcing that stable, albeit more moderate economic growth is expected in 2020, as well.
Meanwhile, the National Statistical Institute announced that annual inflation in January was 4.2%, with a rise in prices marked in almost all goods and services.
The heads of European news agencies received a souvenir of the Bulgarian alphabet for 24 May. The general director of the Bulgarian News Agency (BTA), Kiril Valchev, presented each of the participants in the spring conference of the European..
The Spring Book Fair opened in Sofia on May 24 to celebrate the Day of Culture, Education and Bulgarian Literature. It will run until June 2. According to a 2023 survey by Alpha Research Agency and the Observatory for the Economics of Culture, 70% of..
More than 150 thousand Bulgarians living abroad returned home between 2014 and 2023. In the same period, almost 220 thousand chose to migrate abroad. According to the National Statistical Institute, in 10 years, 68 thousand people have left the country..
The heads of European news agencies received a souvenir of the Bulgarian alphabet for 24 May. The general director of the Bulgarian News Agency..
The European Commission has given Bulgaria and 15 other EU countries a two-month deadline to fully implement EU rules on road tolls for trucks, linking..
On Saturday, minimum temperatures in the country will range from 11 to 14°C, with a low of 12°C in Sofia. Morning fog is expected in the plains and..
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