Military manpower - reaching military age annually: males: 57,461 (2000 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure: $379 million (FY99)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 2.7% (FY99)
Military - note: the Bulgarian Ministry of Defense has begun a new downsizing, modernization, and reform program (PLAN 2004) that will result in the adoption of a smaller force structure of around 50,000 personnel, based upon a Rapid Reaction Force and two additional corps headquarters, all with subordinate brigades
@Bulgaria:Transnational Issues
Illicit drugs: major European transshipment point for Southwest Asian heroin and, to a lesser degree, South American cocaine for the European market; limited producer of precursor chemicals
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BURKINA FASO
@Burkina Faso:Introduction
Background: Independence from France came to Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta) in 1960. Governmental instability during the 1970s and 1980s was followed by multiparty elections in the early 1990s. Several hundred thousand farm workers migrate south every year to Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana.