The monograph clarifies the main reasons for the unprecedented investment vacuum that has formed in the Bulgarian economy over the last decade. It reveals the decisive potential opportunities within the powers of the state to overcome this vacuum. It substantiates the unconditional need for a unified and sufficiently forward-looking approach to state regulation of investment activity, inextricably linked to the development and permanent updating of a comprehensive national program for the democratic transformation of the entire socio-economic system and for the competitive development of the Bulgarian economy in a changing world. -economic system and for the competitive development of the Bulgarian economy in a changing world.