In ten years, Bulgaria has climbed three positions in the Prosperity Index of the London-based Legatum Institute, but bad scores in the management, health care and personal freedom sub-indices leave the country at the bottom of the ranking among EU member-states.
Progress has been recorded in the categories Business Environment, Social Capital and Environment. But the transition to democracy and free-market economy has been slow and this makes the country one of the poorest and most corrupt in the region.
Bulgaria ranks 57th in the world out of a 149 countries surveyed – slightly better than Ecuador and Montenegro, but worse than …read more
Source: Novinite
