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On June 10, in cooperation with G4G USAID, ISET Policy Institute completed a 3-day workshop on Competition Policy. Eleven participants from the State Competition Agency, the Taxpayers Union (TPU), Georgian Lawyers for Independent Professions (GLIP) and ISET all attended the event.
The workshop was led by Anastasia Shepetova, who holds a PhD in competition policy from the Toulouse School of Economics. Currently, she works at MAPP Economics – a consultancy based in Paris and Brussels offering microeconomic analysis services with a focus on competition issues. MAPP has been ranked as the best antitrust economics consultancy in France by the specialized journal Décideurs – Stratégie, Finance, Droit, for five years in a row since 2010.
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ISET Policy Institute in cooperation with Japan Tabacco International (JTI) Georgia launched a free-of-charge training program “Leaders in Development” for policy makers, analysts, mid-level and executives. Opening session held on May 24th, welcomed the first cohort of 31 senior professionals and decision makers coming from more than 15 public, private and non-profit organizations, including: The Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development and the Ministry of Education of Georgia, Tbilisi City Hall, JSC Procredit Bank Georgia, JSC MFO Swiss Capital, Transparency International Georgia and Konrad Adenauer Foundation South Caucasus.
10 week long training program is structured around the most important elements of economic understanding. The program covers how markets work in an open economy, how businesses succeed and fail, why should we worry about inflation, external disbalances, unemployment, what hinders economic growth, how to justify policy decisions (especially in situations where no answer is objectively correct), etc.
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