Reflections on Doing Business in Georgia: a Panel Discussion
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Held on April 8, this discussion was a part of the four-day anti-corruption program ISET organized for a large group of students and faculty from ISET’s partner university, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) in Bergen. The expert panel included Jacques Fleury, former CEO of Borjomi LLC and JSC Château Mukhrani; Mariam Dolidze, Senior Economist at World Bank Georgia; Archil Bakuradze, Chairman of Supervisory Board at JSC Crystal Georgia; Bruno Balvanera, Resident Representative of EBRD Georgia; Giorgi Oniani, Deputy Executive Director of Transparency International Georgia; and ISET President Eric Livny, who also moderated the discussion.
The discussion started with an overview of Georgia’s emergence from the state of civil war, lawlessness and corruption, as illustrated by Jacques Fleury’s story of rebuilding Borjomi– Georgia’s leading mineral water company – in a “legal” environment in which the courts were a private business like any other. Mariam Dolidze underscored Georgia’s post-Rose Revolution achievements in business-friendly reforms, as reflected in its progress in the World Bank’s Doing Business and other international rankings. She also listed outstanding challenges such as judicial system reforms, labor qualifications, (external) market size and infrastructure.
Two ISET Policy Institute Researchers Admitted to Prestigious Ph.D. Programs in the U.S.
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ISET is pleased to announce the excellent achievements of our alumni, Nino Doghonadze (class 2012) and Saba Devdariani (class 2014). Having worked the last few years as researchers at the ISET Policy Institute, Nino and Saba decided to continue their education abroad. With their applications supported by ISET’s senior faculty Tornike Kadeishvili, Daniel Levy, Omer Moav, Motty Perry, and Avner Shaked among others, both have been accepted to a number of prestigious economics PhD program in Europe and the US.
Nino Doghonadze got accepted to Pennsylvania State University where she will be joining two other ISET alumni – Giorgi Mekerishvili (who also happens to be Nino’s classmate) and Roba Khubulashvili. The two are 4th and 3rd year PhD students, respectively.
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