ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF THE TYPICAL RURAL AREAS IN BULGARIA.

Rural areas are taking an important and significant share of the EU. Bulgaria is not an exception and it is important to periodically review and analyze Rural areas' progress on certain parameters, such as GDP per capita, foreign direct investments, tangible fixed assets acquisition costs, coefficient of economic activity, etc. The main goal of this article is to review the progress for a period of 5 years in the typically Rural areas in Bulgaria according to classification NUTS 3 and draw possible future goals for better regional and rural development. The research is based on the official national statistics in Bulgaria and Eurostat. After processing the data, main results are showing higher statistical values in some of the analysed parameters, like GDP and average output of nonfinancial enterprises. We can conclude that even these results are better in last few years, there is need of more stable tendency, so we can consider the typical rural areas as fast developing regions in Bulgaria. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]