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: Eric Livny; Tourism; 17 December 2012; Hits: 2131; Rating:

Touristic Destination or Trade Corridor?

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What is the benefit to Georgia from serving as a trade corridor to Azerbaijan and Armenia? For the moment, given Georgia's lack of capacity to provide value adding services, such as storage and logistics, congestion...

Tags: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Tourism, International Trade

: Eric Livny; Transition and Reforms; 14 December 2012; Hits: 1923; Rating:

Rule of Law and Property Rights, the Economics Perspective

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By 2012, riskes associated with weak protection of property rights have become the binding constraint for Georgia’s economic growth. These risks translated in extremely real lending interest rates (8th highest in the world in 2011) and...

Tags: Transition and Development, Reforms

: Eric Livny; Agriculture; 12 December 2012; Hits: 1806; Rating:

Know Thy Land or a Tale of Two Georgian Regions

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Consistent with its uninterrupted tradition of highly concentrated land ownership, Kakheti is Georgia's leader in land consolidation. Yet, it is also one of the poorest and most unequal regions. Conversely, Samegrelo has always been and...

Tags: Agriculture

: Eric Livny and Lasha Labadze; Social Policy; 10 December 2012; Hits: 3078; Rating:

Economic Growth and Income Inequality in Georgia

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Contrary to the Kuznets curve logic, the Georgian nation became poor and highly unequal through rapid dis-investment and de-industrialization. Addressing social gaps - so as to ensure political stability and improve the quality of labor...

Tags: Poverty, Inequality, Economic Growth, Economic Theory

: Eric Livny; Regional Policy; 03 December 2012; Hits: 1978; Rating:

Roads and Rural Development: the Case of Samtskhe Javakheti

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By drastically cutting travel time to Tbilisi, MCC's investment in road rehabilitation propelled Samtskhe-Javakheti from 5th to 1st in the income-per-household ranking of Georgian regions. Still, the region is in need of industrial development if it...

Tags: Rural Development, Georgia

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Touristic Destination or Trade Corridor?

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Know Thy Land or a Tale of Two Georgian Regions

Economic Growth and Income Inequality in Georgia

Roads and Rural Development: the Case of Samtskhe Javakheti

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