This year’s ISET’s Summer School was composed of a series of lectures, talks by prominent speakers, and debates on the subject of reforms.

Over the past 30 years, Georgia went through a remarkable roller-coaster transition from being one of the best performing USSR republics to a failed state to the top reformer on the post-Soviet space and thus demonstrating that change is possible. Georgia’s experience of fast-track development and modernization through international cooperation, radical deregulation, and trade liberalization carry important lessons learned for policymakers in other transition and developing nations.

ნობელიანტი ეკონომისტი, ჯეიმს ჰეკმანი ამტკიცებდა, რომ „მონაცემები თავისთავად მეტყველებს ყველაფერზე“, მას შემდეგ, რაც ჩაატარა „პერის სკოლამდელი პროექტის“ სახელით ცნობილი ექსპერიმენტი და აღმოაჩინა, რომ მაღალი ხარისხის სკოლამდელ განათლებაში ინვესტირების უკუგება დაახლოებით 14%-ია – უკუგების დონე, რომელიც საბირჟო ფონდის სტანდარტული ბრუნვის უკუგებაზე (7.2%) გაცილებით მაღალია.

On Thursday, April 6, ISET hosted Professor Giorgio Brunello, who delivered a seminar for the ISET community. The title of his presentation was “Does Delayed Retirement Affect Youth Employment? Evidence from Italian Provinces”. According to his research, pension reforms that raise the minimum retirement age increase the pool of senior individuals aged 50+ who are not eligible to retire from the labor market.

Giga Bokeria, the leader of the European Georgia opposition party, visited ISET to deliver a lecture on anti-corruption reforms in Georgia carried out by the United National Movement government of 2003-2012. Bokeria, a UNM member until 2017, played an integral role in the Rose Revolution, which ousted the late Eduard Shevardnadze, under whose tenure Georgia had become wracked by institutional corruption.