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G7 finance ministers urge speedy Georgia reconstruction
The finance ministers of the G7 industrial countries issued a joint statement Wednesday calling for international institutions to work together for the speedy reconstruction of the damaged infrastructure of Georgia ( Read more... ) -
Georgian Economy At A Glance
Galt & Taggart Securities (does this ring a bell?), Bank of Georgia's (group of companies I used to work for) investment arm and one of the leading investment banks in Georgia last week circulated to it's analytics subscribers a presentation on current state and immediate prospects of the Georgian economy.
It's a short, but rich in numbers report ( Read more... ) -
Russia Steps Up the Pressure On Georgia
The only Russian-made products I still use in my daily life are gas in my kitchen and matches I light it with. While I cannot yet expect the disappearance of matches - as they apparently aren’t a product strategic enough for Russia to cut it’s supply to Georgia - soon I won’t be able to tell for sure that the gas I’m using is Russian.
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Doing Business in Georgia
Johan Norberg in his Liberalism-Capitalism-Globalization Blog
I mentioned that Georgia is reforming. More than anyone else, actually. According to the Doing Business index 2007, Georgia has moved from place 112 to 37 in just one year - unprecedented in the history of the report.
Georgia has reduced the minimum capital required to start a new ( Read more... ) -
Dissident Russian expert to advise Saakashvili
The Kommersant Daily speculates that Andrei Illarionov, ex senior advisor and an outspoken critic of Putin's economic policies (which include arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky), might become the next economics advisor for the president of Georgia.
Illarionov, who recently has been hired by Cato Institute, a US libertarian economics think-tank, visited ( Read more... )
