METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS IN THE SELECTION OF REPRESENTATIVE GOODS FOR THE NEEDS OF THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC COMPARISONS

METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS IN THE SELECTION OF REPRESENTATIVE GOODS FOR THE NEEDS OF THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC COMPARISONS

TODOR IV. TODOROV

Abstract

The international economic comparisons (IECs) have standed for a log time as a main approach for studying the trendencies in the world social and aconomic development. The ingternational economic comparisons are conducted on the basis of statistical information for a numberof goods and services, which are being referred to as “representatives” (or “goods-representatives”.
The right selection of the goods-representatives (GR) is a precondition for achieving of results corresponding to the targets and tasks of the undertaken international economic comparisons.

Key words

rural areas, farmers, administration, EU funding, Bulgaria

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