This symposium, held at Georgia Tech in April 2000, brought together researchers in universities in the state of Georgia working on projects related to Bulgaria. Researchers presented their ongoing research and discussed future collaborative research and project possibilities. Experts from Bulgaria and other parts of the United States also made presentations at the symposium.
Electronic proceedings are available.
The symposium was sponsored by the European Center of Georgia , the School of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology, the Environmental Risk Assessment in Bulgaria Project at Georgia Tech , and the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University . National Science Foundation, 1995-1998. The project on Privatization, Regional Development, and Democratization focuses on the processes and impacts of economic, political, and societal transformation in Bulgaria. Through the lens of how new private enterprises are emerging and operating at the regional level, the project will examine a series of inter-relationships critical to the process of transition in Eastern Europe, including linkages with and between the state, private enterprise, markets, finance, economic and regional development, equity, and community institutions. The project's field research focuses on Bulgaria's Veliko Tarnovo region.