President of ISET Alumni Association
Lasha Labadze has been with ISET since 2008, serving as a researcher and subsequently as deputy director and executive director of the ISET Policy Institute until January 2018. At ISET, as well as managing a team of researchers, conducted his own research and provided economic policy consulting and training services. In 2017, Lasha also became co-director of ISET’s newly-established BA program in Economics. In 2018, Lasha was elected to be ISET alumni association president and joined ISET's governing board as an ex-officio member.
Since February 2018, Lasha has served as an Assistant Professor at the American University of the Middle East in Kuwait. His research interests are primarily in applied microeconomics, education economics, labor economics and agricultural economics. He holds PhD degree in Economics from Tbilisi State University (2015), and a Master's degree in economics from ISET (2008).
Projects
1. Costs and Benefits of Labour Mobility between the EU and the Eastern Partnership Partner Countries
3. Computable General Equilibrium Model for Georgia
4. Cooperation for Rural Prosperity in Georgia (ENPARD)
6. Population Situation Analysis in Georgia
7. Impact of East-West Highway Corridor
8. Good Jobs for Inclusive Growth
9. Consumer Demand Analysis for JSC Sarajishvili
10. Identify Determinant Factors of Mathematics Test Results in Georgian Schools
Publications
1. Costs and Benefits of Labour Mobility between the EU and the Eastern Partnership Partner Countries
2. Public Expenditures on Education and Health in Georgia Before and During the Global Crisis
3. Five Million Tourists in Georgia by 2015 – a Myth or a Nightmarish Reality?
4. Public Expenditures on Education and Health in Georgia Before and After the Global Crisis, 2011
5. Costs and Benefits of Labor Mobility between the EU and the Eastern Partnership Partner Countries – EuropeAid/130215/C/SER/Multi, 2012
6. Population Situation analysis (PSA) Georgia 2014. United Nations Population Fund, 2015
7. Transfer of Know-How to Small and Mid-Size Businesses in Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. White Paper: Georgia. 2015
8. The consumption of untaxed cigarettes in Switzerland: “La consommation de cigarettes non taxées en Suisse: estimation à partir du Monitorage suisse des addictions”. Published on the Webpage of the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health, 2016
