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07 June 2013
Hans Gutbrod
Correcting Unemployment Numbers – A Call for Government Action
There are many pressing challenges and issues that command the attention of people interested in politics in Georgia. Some of these issues are emotionally charged, and there is not necessarily a consensus across society. However, there is one issue on which there should be a consensus, and it matters tremendously to the Georgian people.
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03 June 2013
Giorgi Mekerishvili, Florian Biermann
Riding the Dragon
Cultural and intellectual achievements herald the economic success of a people, and the Chinese cultural and intellectual heritage is breathtaking. The Chinese discovered gunpowder, the compass, and the movable type printing press long before the Europeans.
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31 May 2013
Eric Livny
A New Competition Law for Georgia: Much Ado About Nothing?
The mountain of promises to modify Georgia’s liberal labor code has recently produced a little mouse in the shape of a statement by Deputy Prime Minister Giorgi Margvelashvili who, according to GeorgiaNews.ge, “branded the new labor code project a “dream of Rosa Luxemburg”.
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29 May 2013
Maya Grigolia
Financial Literacy in Georgia
Does Georgia have a well-developed financial sector? Certainly, the proliferation of bank branches and automated teller machines in the capital city of Tbilisi might suggest that it does. And yet, the data indicates that for a country of its size, Georgia has a relatively small financial sector.
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27 May 2013
Giorgi Machavariani, Florian Biermann
The Tides of Markets
It is an empirical fact that in market economies the economic activity shows cyclical patterns. The 19th-century French economist Clement Juglar is generally attributed to having formulated the first coherent theory of what are known as business cycles.
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24 May 2013
Jacques Fleury
The Georgian Wine Industry: Recent Past and the Way Forward
We are very happy to post the second part of Jacques Fleury's commentary on the Georgian Wine Industry. In the first part, Jacques reflected on the experience of surviving the Russian embargo, on the one hand, and dealing with a series of heavy-handed and incompetent government interventions, on the other.
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