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On March 30-31 ISET-PI team took part in an interim research workshop conducted within the framework of a multi-country study “Good Jobs for Inclusive Growth in Central and West Asia” organized and financed by the Asian Development Bank. The goal of the study is to inform policy decisions aimed at promoting inclusive growth and reduce poverty and inequality in the countries of Central and West Asia (Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, as well as Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan).
The first part of the workshop took place in Tbilisi on March 29, where distinguished speakers, Michael Beenstock (ISET and Hebrew University) and Ravi Kanbur (Cornell University) spoke of the current trends in growth and inequality in Georgia and worldwide. The second part of the workshop took place in Dilijan on the premises of National Bank of Armenia, where ISET-PI’s Lasha Labadze and Maka Chitanava presented the results of the team’s research.
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On January 14-16, 2016 ISET-PI’s Senior Researcher Nino Doghonadze attended a conference centered on discussion of, “Economics, Health and Happiness” in Lugano, Switzerland. The conference brought together interdisciplinary researchers from approximately 60 countries. The event was jointly organized by the department of Business Economics, Health & Social Care of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, HEIRS and SSPH+.
The conference covered a wide variety of topics from genetics of happiness as well as an attempt to measure the Buddhist definition of happiness, Nino presented her working paper co-authored with ISET professors Karine Torosyan and Norberto Pignatti, titled “The choice of women between employment and homestay, and their happiness and life satisfaction: the case of the South Caucasus”. Nino received positive feedback from the participants of the conference and valuable comments which she will use to revise her paper.
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