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Created: 11 April 2016

ISET is proud to welcome Maria De Paola, a visiting professor working at the Department of Economics, Statistics and Finance at the University of Calabria in Italy. Currently an associate Professor of Economics, Maria obtained her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Rome.
ISET students had a chance to learn from April 11 – April 22 2016, when she taught 2nd year students an elective course in Education Economics. In addition, she made a public lecture on her and Vincenzo Scoppa’s research on Procrastination, Academic Success and the Effectiveness of a Remedial Programme.
Her work has been published in a number of prestigious journals, such as the Journal of Labour Economics, the Journal of Public Economics, and the Journal of Population Economics. Her research interests include the economics of education and training, labour economics, and policy evaluation and economic politics.

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Borjomi was the final stop and the highlight on a four-day anticorruption program ISET organized for students and faculty of its partner university, the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) in Bergen. The tour was hosted by Borjomi LTD, producer of Georgia’s most famous mineral water – the “Coca Cola of the Soviet Union”, in the words of Jacques Fleury, the company’s former CEO. Mr. Fleury had personally greeted ISET and NHH participants on Borjomi’s premises.

Held on Saturday, April 9, the visit started with a study tour of Borjomi’s Factory #1, allowing the group to observe the entire bottling process. The factory had recently received a very large investment allowing to greatly expand and fully automate the entire production process. With a capacity of more than 100,000 bottles per hour, today’s Borjomi is selling a very large share of its output in the former USSR market where its water is considered a major premium brand.

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