Issue 1, 2009

The author discusses important strategic aspects of the economic development of Bulgaria until 2020. On some key issues the analysis penetrates further in the following decades. As it was 100 or 50 years back, as well as at present, Bulgaria was and is among the last in Europe in terms of the most important economic, social and other indicators. One argues that the country can not afford staying on this ranking over the following years and decades. The citizens of the country would not tolerate it, and the other EU members would start looking at us as an accidental foreign object in the community's organism. One could get out of this uneasy situation only through an accelerated catching up development. A thorough description of the catching up development is provided, as compared to accelerated development. The key priorities in the economic development of the country are pointed out. The most important strategic economic objectives of Bulgaria until 2020 are identified, and the ways and means for their implementation are enumerated.

JEL: E20, O11, O40

There are formal and informal relations in the managerial process. The inter-personal manifestations create also the respective behavioral networks. The fact how the formal and informal behavioral networks correspond to each other predetermines the managerial results. It has been pointed out that the internal and external uncertainty of the environment, in which the managerial process is realized, is a reason for behavioral phobias. The phobia objects have been defined as one of the important conditions for taking adequate measures aiming at the effective realizations of the managerial process. The inter-personal relations as a source of phobia conditions are relations of a special significance.

JEL: L20; L23

The enterprise has been analyzed as an economic organism with own existence and immanent characteristics, out of which its economic aims originate. In order to achieve these aims, it establishes a structure of manufacturing, economic and legal-regulative systems, as well as a system of social-economic persons - owner, entrepreneur and employee. The positive (creative) and the negative (selfish) energy of the enterprise has been studied in its contemporary and historic aspects; also the new forms of uncertainty and above all - the strategic form based on the opportunistic behaviors of the partners, as well as the growing role of the institutions. The contemporary dominant in its management has been studied too. The new techniques for the development of the creativity and creative thinking in the managerial process have been analyzed.

JEL: L20; L25

The aim of the paper is to reveal and analyze some basic reasons, which caused the rejection of totalitarianism and transition from a centrally-planned to a market economy. On this basis, the main trends in Bulgarian agriculture at the beginning of 21st century have been outlined. Conclusions have been drawn concerning ways and specific proposals for the integration of the Bulgarian agriculture into the European agriculture as an opportunity for its stable growth within the EU framework.

JEL: Q12; Q15