An overtaking vision for the catching-up development of Bulgaria

The author of this work prof. Ivan Angelov is known as a courageous innovator and an established professional, having worked for more than six decades in economic practice in and outside Bulgaria in various high positions requiring knowledge and accumulation, as well as at the Institute of Economics of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences since 1960. He was the head of the first strategy for catching-up economic development in Bulgaria, developed and published 15 years ago. The monograph of prof. Angelov's monograph can be a basis from which to start and develop a comprehensive Programme for catching up and overtaking socio-economic, scientific-technical and environmental development of Bulgaria (let the word "overtaking" not be underestimated - Bulgaria has overtaken the current global leaders more than once and in more than one area); four-year plans for the implementation of the twenty-year programme.