On April 23-24, 2015, Lasha Lanchava, Research Fellow at ISET-PI, Education and Social Policy Research Center, participated as a discussant in the workshop titled “How to increase tax compliance – new tools from behavioural economics” organized by the Joint Research Center of the European Commission in Kiev, Ukraine.
The workshop targeted leading scholars, representatives of Ministries of Finances, tax authorities and NGOs from associated countries. The workshop aimed at collecting state of the art insights from behavioural economics which could be used to stimulate an increase in tax compliance – taking into account country-specific background factors.
On Tuesday, April 21st, Tornike Kadeishvili, Head of Scientific Board of Andrea Razmadze Mathematical Institute and Professor of Mathematics at ISET, gave a public lecture organized by ISET. The presentation was of “popular lecture” type, were Prof. Kadeishvili showed students how mathematics is used in modeling of economic events. More than 100 students and other interested individuals attended the lecture.
Prof. Kadeishvili started his presentation by showing his proof how efficiency of country’s governance can be increased through investing in education.