International Finance Institute

Venezuela continues this year to head the Bloomberg rating for "the most miserable economies in the world," but three of the top ten are neighbors of Bulgaria.

Turkey ranks fourth, Greece - fifth, and Serbia is the tenth.

Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan, who entered the 58th government in 2002 as the youngest cabinet member and sat at the seat of state minister responsible of economy at the age of 38, has been replaced by Cevdet Y?lmaz, who was the minister for development.

Istanbul is going through active days because of Turkey?s G-20 presidency. Due to this, G-20 finance ministers and central bank governors were holding meetings in our city.

Before them, International Finance Institute held a conference in Istanbul. In the ?Reinvigorating growth, reducing inequality? session, the focus was ?transparency.?