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Bulgaria up 4 notches in World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness Report

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In its latest Global Competitiveness Report for 2016-2017, which the World Economic Forum releases every other year, Bulgaria has climbed four notches up to 50th position.

This result places the country behind other East European countries like: Estonia  (30), Poland (36), Russia (43) and Latvia (49), but ahead of Turkey (55), Romania(62), Slovakia (65), Hungary (69) and Croatia (74). Neighbouring Serbia is 90th



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