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Strategic Dialogue on the Competitiveness of Georgia

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On October 23, 2013 ISET hosted a strategic dialogue on Georgia’s national competitiveness. Eric Livny, ISET’s Director, opened the dialog with a brief presentation of the major changes in Georgia’s competitiveness performance in the 2012/13 Global Competitiveness Report. Georgia improved from 77th to 72nd position; the country saw the largest improvement in the macroeconomic environment, while doing slightly worse in the labor market, healthcare and primary education pillars.

In the second part of the event, Mr. Livny invited a panel of experts to discuss the potential focus of next year’s National Competitiveness Report (NCR).

Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) and its Six Sisters Gather for an Annual Retreat in Sweden’s Ancient Capital

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While the only institution of its kind in the South Caucasus, the International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University (ISET) is not alone when it comes to Eastern Europe and the former Soviet space.

In fact, ISET is one of the latest arrivals (established in 2006) into a very small family of teaching and research institutions that propagate and practice modern economics. Some of the other institutions belonging to this family are (from oldest to youngest):

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