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Industry Watch released Q3 2005 Housing Market in Bulgaria report.
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In a secret vote on 27th July, the parliament rejected the government proposed by socialist leader Sergei Stanishev.
The coalition had 116 votes; it could also count on one MP that left the Ataka faction earlier and openly announced its support for BSP cabinet. The vote was a two-stage one: first, Sergei Stanishev had to be approved as prime minister, and second, the parliament had to approve the structure and the staff of the cabinet. Stanish...
Credit grew modestly in from end-May to mid-July, reflecting the impact of BNB restrictive measures.
Credit to private sector by mid-July was BGN 16,524, or a growth of 0.7% for six weeks since our last survey. The M3 aggregate grew by 5.3% to BGN 23,676 million – quite faster than the expansion of the monetary base. The latter grew by BGN 163 million in June and first half of July or 2.3% up from end-May. The other reason was ...
Short-term fiscal policy of the new government: possible scenarios.
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The state of public finance by mid-2005.
The new government will take office in a time of unprecedented size of fiscal reserve, low level of public debt, and high growth of public revenues.By May, public revenues reached BGN 7.35 billion, or 15.3% higher than in the first five months of 2004. Tax revenues grew by 13.8%, with VAT and fuel excises growing by about 20%.Pu...
Economic policy after elections.
Most parties in the new parliament seem to have no interest in new elections. For BSP, NMS2 and UDF this seems the logical choice, and the MRF is rather indifferent, but by all means satisfied with the high support. This means that at least in the short term this parliament will have to form a government. However, due to the var...
Trakiya Motorway concession would have a significant fiscal and macroeconomic effect in Bulgaria.
Privatization and deregulation in Bulgaria are often subject to obstacles imposed by the Judiciary. From the recent history we know that, although the formal justification of the judicial intervention is always check of procedures and their consistency with the law, in most of the situation expediency is the leading argument.The...
Fiscal surplus grew in April, fiscal policy maintains restrictive.
The trend of restrictive fiscal policy through accumulating the current budget surpluses in the fiscal reserve account in BNB continued. In Q1 of 2005 we saw the usual contraction of consolidated public expenditures after the massive spending in the end of the previous year. They were lower compared to both Q3 and Q4 of 2004 lev...

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