Table of Contents
Executive Summary — 5 Market
Overview — 6 Bulgaria — 6
Global — 8 Weeding Out Possible White
Elephants — 8 Mega-Urban Regions: Opportunities and
Challenges for Infrastructure — 9 Mega-Urban Regions:
Investment Opportunities And Risks — 10 Table: The
World’s 30 Largest Urban Agglomerations — 12 Table:
The World' s Richest Cities In 2020 By Gdp — 16 Table: The
World' s Fastest Growing Urban Areas — 18 SWOT
Analysis — 20 Bulgaria Infrastructure Industry
SWOT — 20 Bulgaria Political SWOT — 20
Bulgaria Economic SWOT — 21 Bulgaria Business Environment
SWOT — 21 Major Infrastructure Developments and Key
Projects — 22 Transport Infrastructure
Overview — 22 New And Ongoing
Projects — 24 Airports — 24 Road
Networks — 24 Rail Networks — 25
Table: Major Projects - Transport — 26 Energy & Utilities
Infrastructure Overview — 28 New and Ongoing
Projects — 30 Power Plants and Transmission
Grids — 30 Oil and Gas Pipelines — 32
Water — 33 Table: Major Projects -
Utilities — 34 Construction
Overview — 36 New and Ongoing
Projects — 37 Residential
Construction — 37 Commercial
Construction — 37 Tourism
Construction — 38 Table: Major Projects -
Construction — 38 Industry Forecast
Scenario — 41 Table: Bulgaria Economic And Construction
Data — 41 Business Environment — 42
RegionaL Infrastructure Business Environment Ratings — 45
Limits of Potential Returns — 46 Risk to Realisation Of
Potential Returns — 46 Project Finance Ratings: Outlook
for Europe — 47 Table: Design And Construction
Rating — 48 Table: Commissioning And Operating
Rating — 50 Table: Overall Project Finance
Rating — 51 Foreign Direct
Investment — 52 Labour Force — 54
Legal Framework — 55 Tax Regime — 57
Macroeconomic Outlook — 58 Table: Bulgaria - Economic
Activity — 59 Political Outlook — 60
Domestic Politics — 60 Table: Bulgaria Political
Overview — 62 Domestic Politics — 63
Company Monitor — 65
Glavbolgarstroy — 65 Holcim
(Bulgaria) — 66 Mott MacDonald — 67
Country Snapshot: Bulgaria Demographic Data — 69 Section
1: Population — 69 Table: Demographic Indicators,
2005-2030 — 69 Table: Rural/Urban Breakdown,
2005-2030 — 70 Section 2: Education And
Healthcare — 70 Table: Education,
2002-2005 — 70 Table: Vital Statistics,
2005-2030 — 70 Section 3: Labour Market and Spending
Power — 71 Table: Employment Indicators,
2001-2006 — 71 Table: Consumer Expenditure, 2000-2012
(US$) — 71 Table: Average Annual Wages,
2000-2012 — 72 BMI Forecast
Modelling — 73 How We Generate Our Industry
Forecasts — 73 Construction
Industry — 74 Sources — 74 Business
Environment — 75 Ratings Overview — 75
Table: Infrastructure Business Environment Indicators — 76
Project Finance Ratings Methodology — 77 Construction
Risks — 78 Operating Risks – Commercial
Construction — 79 Operating Risks – Energy and
Utilities — 80 Operating Risks
–Transport — 81
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