Did you know that:
• the 20 warmest years on record have been in the past 22 years?
• average wildlife populations have dropped by 60% in just over 40 years (60% between 1970 and 2014)?
• every year, nearly 1 million hectares (larger than New York City) of coastal ecosystems are destroyed?
• in the past 20 years, 4.2 billion people have been affected by weather-related disasters, including a significant loss of lives?
These and other broader changes such as rising sea levels, accelerating ice melt, shifting seasons, etc. occurring on earth are...
ISET Economist Blog
A blog about economics in the South Caucasus.
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Jan
17
On November 15-16, 2019, FREE Network and ISET Policy Institute organized and conducted an international gender economics conference in Tbilisi, Georgia1. The conference brought together researchers, policy-makers, and the broader development community to discuss obstacles to gender equality and women’s economic empowerment, and policies to remove the existing constraints, focusing on Eastern Europe and Emerging Economies. The conference’s opening remarks were offered by two prominent keynote speakers: Dr. Caren Grown, Senior Director for Gender at the W...
Jan
10
INTRODUCTION1
The economic policies of successive Georgian governments have arguably lacked cohesive direction when it comes to inclusive growth. There still remains an open question of whether the overall goal has been to pull people from agriculture or to leave them where they are, while pushing productivity up via, for instance, funding the development of cooperatives or clusters. Concurrently, the state also has introduced industrial policies, like establishing SME support agencies that operate under the auspices of different ministries. Trying a lit...
Dec
30
In November 2019, prices for food and non-alcoholic beverages, as measured by the Food Price Index (FPI), drastically increased by 13.4% compared to November 2018 and contributed 4.02 percentage points to the change in the total Consumer Price Index (CPI). In recent months, annual food inflation marked at its highest level since August 2011 (Figure 1).1
Figure 1: Annual Food Price Inflation (January 2010-November 2019)
Prices increased for all sub-categories of food and non-alcoholic beverages. The largest price increases were observed for fruits and gr...
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