On December 13-16, APRC's Davit Zhorzholiani participated in an Inter-Alliance Workshop in Yerevan organized by Oxfam in the South Caucasus. Approximately 50 people from Georgia, Armenia, Vietnam, Tajikistan, and Lebanon attended the workshop, which was rich with intensive training, presentations, panel discussions, group works, and more.
Furthermore, high dollarization makes depreciation a dangerous process for the financial sector, as many people with loans or debts in US dollars are unable to pay. In addition, high and persistent dollarization constrains the effectiveness of the monetary policy, as the transmission of the monetary policy to the market interest rates and real variables are rather limited.
2016 წლის 29 ნოემბერს, ევროკავშირის მიერ დაფინანსებული ენპარდის (ENPARD) პროგრამის ფარგლებში, „ჰოტელს ენდ პრეფერენს ჰუალინგ თბილისში“ გაიმართა უწყებათაშორისი ფორუმი – კოოპერატივების ხელმისაწვდომობა ფინანსებზე. ფორუმი მიზნად ისახავდა კოოპერატივებისათვის ფინანსებზე წვდომასთან დაკავშირებული გამოწვევებისა და შესაძლებლობების განხილვას.
On November 25, ISET started a policy seminar series provided by the second-year students of ISET’s MA program. The first presentation was delivered by Tamar Bregvadze, Mariam Chachava, Kamran Gasimov, and Yervand Martirosyan under the supervision of the head of Energy Concentration at ISET, Norberto Pignatti.
On November 21, Prof. Dr. Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel gave a presentation of a working paper entitled “Trade Costs for Heterogeneous Agricultural Products” at ISET. The professor himself and Mr. Yi Qu are the co-others of the paper, which aims to evaluate trade costs for 125 different agricultural products based on 1992-2011 data from 156 different countries.