Hans Wiesmeth: The Environmental Kuznets Curve
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Professor Hans Wiesmeth from Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden) visit ISET last Thursday to present one of his recent papers “The Environmental Kuznets Curve”, co-authored with Shlomo Weber from New Economic School.
Professor Wiesmeth talked about climate change (especially global warming) in the world and environmental problems caused by carbon dioxide levels in the air, which is now at its highest levels in history. As GDP per capita is increasing in the country after some point level of carbon dioxide in that country decreases but generally in the world total amount is increasing year after year, as many countries are still on developing stage when alongside process of development, level of carbon dioxide in the air is increasing. Since our environment is a public good, he outlined the role of cooperation within countries while dealing these issues.
Final Workshop on the Crop Insurance Reform in Georgia
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On November 5th, 2015 APRC at ISET Policy Institute presented a final results of a study called Regulatory Impact Assessment on crop insurance in Georgia. The goal of the workshop was to present and discuss the final results of RIA which was conducted by the APRC team from June to October 2015.
The following stakeholders attended the meeting: Agricultural Projects Management Agency (APMA), Georgian Insurance Association (GIA), insurance companies, Georgian Farmers’ Association (GFA), a USAID project Governing for Growth (G4G), and Agroinsurance International.
The main presenter of the study was Pati Mamardashvili, the head of APRC, who briefly talked about the insurance market and the results of the pilot project. The presentation gave a short introduction into the topic, outlining the situation before the pilot insurance program and the key figures of two pilot programs (2014 and 2015).
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