INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I: EMERGENCY AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE PRIVATE SECTOR

1. Legal framework of private sector in Bulgaria

• Legal framework of property
  Legal status of commercial entities and their interrelationsin the process of carrying out economic activity
  Taxation
  Legal framework of foreign investments and their role for private sector development
  Legal framework of competition
  Conclusions
  

2. Development of the private sector until 1990

CHAPTER II: THE PRIVATE SECTOR BETWEEN 1990-1994

1. General dynamics of the registered private firms

2. Dynamics of the legal status of the private sector

3. Investment in the private sector

4. Branch structure and GDP share of the private sector

• The Bulgarian private sector according to international sources
  

5. Financial results of the private sector

• Avails
  Profits
  Fixed tangible assets
  

6. Economic efficiency

• Efficiency
  

7. Microeconomic environment

• Main factors of the environment
  Competition
  Price policy of the private firms
  Prospects for the economy
  

CHAPTER III: THE POLICY TOWARDS THE PRIVATE SECTOR

1. Financing of the Private Sector

2. Tax concessions for the private sector

3. State funds providing incentives for the private sector

• "Small and medium-sized enterprises" Fund
  Incentives to creation
  Agricultural Credit Center
  Bulgarian Investment Fund
  

4. Foreign sources of support to the private sector

• Credits from the World Bank
  Credit line from the European Investment Bank
  Bulgarian-American Investment Fund
  The PHARE Program - local strategies for economic development and employment support
  

5. Summary

CHAPTER IV: PRIVATE BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS

• Bulgarian Camber of Economy
  Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
  Union for Private Economic Enterprise
  Organization of the Free Entrepreneurs "Alternative 2000"
  Union of the Private Producers "Vazrajdane"
  Private Farmers Union
  Union of the Crafts Cooperatives
  Central Cooperative Union
  Branch organizations of the private business
  Confederation of the Industrialists "G-13"
  

Findings

CHAPTER V: PUBLIC OPINION AND ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE PRIVATE SECTOR