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Small Hydropower Plants: No Competition in a Competitive Marketplace
Economics suggests that competition in a market brings more welfare to a country. Anti-monopoly agencies exist to create policies that limit market dominance and achieve competition.
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Political Instability in Fragile Democracies
The literature, typically using panel data covering many countries, shows that higher government turnover rates reduce growth significantly in both economic and statistical terms, even for established democracies.
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Georgia – Net Electricity Importer Again?
Several years ago the (now former) Georgian government started successful reforms in the electricity sector and was eagerly looking forward to future projects.
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“Invisible Hand“ in the Georgian Preschool Education Sector
The private provision of childcare in Georgia’s cities has been on the rise during the last few years as is especially evident in the capital.
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Economics Everywhere. What Does a Cheap Violin Have to Do With Romanticism?
The term “economics imperialism” has been coined in recent decades to describe a tendency of economists to meddle with such seemingly non-economic aspects of life as crime, the family, irrational behavior, politics, culture, religion, and war. Mine is an attempt to invade the world of music.
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The Puzzle of Agricultural Productivity in Georgia (and Armenia)
While more than half of all jobs in Georgia are in the agricultural sector, agriculture’s share of value-added to GDP was only 11 percent in 2007 (World Bank).
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