October 27, 2013 heralded a new era in the Georgian politics. The year of power sharing between the two main rival political forces, the so-called “era of cohabitation”, has officially ended, and we can now start to look back and take the stock of how the political developments in the country affected economic growth.
In two articles that we publish today and in the next week, we will aim to provide an overview of some specific trends. We will first look at the general economic trends in the year between the parliamentary and the presidential elections (...
ISET Economist Blog
A blog about economics in the South Caucasus.
Nov
10
Nov
04
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) in his Leviathan describes the conditions where “there is no place for Industry; because the fruit thereof is uncertain; and consequently no Culture of the Earth; no Navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by Sea; no commodious Building; no Instruments of moving, and removing such things as require much force; no Knowledge of the face of the Earth; no account of Time; no Arts; no Letters; no Society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; And the life of man, solitary, po...
Jun
28
The Georgian economy faces many challenges, not least of which are access to finance and the extremely high cost of financing private enterprises. With the cost of borrowing (real interest rate) reaching 17.3% on average in April 2013, businesses find it very difficult to function, let alone invest in innovative technologies, long-term growth and development. These challenges can be directly traced to issues raised in one of the ISET Economist blogs: the Georgian financial industry is still very far from being a well-developed, efficiently functioning sy...
Jan
25
Georgia is among a few countries in the world that does not have a deposit insurance system in place. Does the country need to have such a system? Or is deposit insurance likely to do more harm then good? The answer is not as clear-cut as it may seem.
Deposit insurance is a relatively new phenomenon in international banking. For example, in 1974 only 12 countries had explicit deposit insurance schemes, while in 2003 the number already rose to 87. United States was one of the first countries in the world to establish such as scheme. The Federal Deposit In...
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