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Summary: This paper investigates the changes
that occurred over the last decade in
three dimensions: economic well-
being, health and education.The social and economic changes in Bulgaria since the beginning
of transition naturally raise concern about their impact on child
well-being. To some extent, the problem of child rights and child
development have started to be investigated in a number of
recent studies. However, most of them focus on specific groups of
children and do not address the overall deterioration of the social
environment that may have disproportionately affected all
children in the country. The paper investigates the changes that
occurred over the last decade in three dimensions of child welfare
recognised as fundamental child rights - economic well-being,
health and education. Then it concentrates on particularly
vulnerable groups of children - those born of teenage or single
mothers and those living in institutions. The data show that the
human cost of economic transiation has been high and children
have been among the most vulnerable groups of the society.pdf: www.unicef-icdc.org/publications/pdf/iwp84.pdf