With the recent changes in the Georgian government, the Partnership Fund has received renewed attention. The fund is now headed by two political heavyweights, the former Prime Minister, Nika Gilauri, and the former Minister of Finance, Dima Gvindadze.

Despite arduous government efforts to reduce regional disparities, population and wealth are very unevenly distributed across Georgia’s territory.

The objective of the project was to review social and economic platforms of Georgian political parties in key reform areas during the 2012 parliamentary election campaign. This project, involving a coalition of Georgian think tanks and NGOs, sought to review political party platforms in key reform areas such as employment, rural development, and education during the 2012 parliamentary election campaign

This week marks the first anniversary of the “ISET Khachapuri Index” in The Financial. During the last 12 months, our faithful readers have followed the ups and the downs of the index and learned many economics lessons in the process.

Another perspective on whether to build a new city or not: in some papers land scarcity is seen as a factor that stimulates urbanization and industrialization.