For a country like Georgia with some 50-55% of the population living below the poverty line and some 15% living in conditions of extreme poverty, the need for a coherent and sustainable social security policy is urgent. Georgia inherited the Soviet s

Two major developments have characterized activity in Georgia’s defence sector since the 2003 Rose Revolution: intensified effort to hasten Georgian accession to NATO and, correspondingly, large-scale infrastructural and long-term planning refo

National statistics, among many other policy issues, is given significant attention in the European Neighbourhood Policy Action Plan (section 4.5.5). The ENP AP stipulates that reform of national statistics should take two forms: first, statistical m

Civil service reform is arguably a cornerstone of economic, political and social restructuring of the Georgian state. On one hand, a reformed civil service should provide effective mechanisms for the performance of state institutions. On the other ha

Guaranteeing the right to property is essential to defining a market economy-driven liberal state. The right to privately own property (as opposed to collectively where in principle all members of a given society own some portion of something, but in

Political parties are necessary for the functioning of a modern democracy. The strength and degree of institutionalisation of a party system is often invoked as a reliable measure of the strength of democracy itself in a given country. Evaluation of

Early in 2007 the Georgian government launched a nationwide program of hospital sector restructuring deemed “100 New Hospitals.” The goal of the program is to transfer ownership of all state-owned, privately administered hospitals in Tbil

In his address to the Georgian parliament this summer, Joe Biden pointed to fundamental flaws within the Georgian political system and called for action to be taken. "The Rose Revolution will only be complete when... issues are debated inside this

Today, Georgia's media is less free and pluralistic than it was before the Rose Revolution in 2003 and the ousting of President Eduard Shevardnadze. While the country enjoys a pluralistic, albeit small print media, Georgia lacks a truly pluralist

The European Neighbourhood Policy Action Plan states that the government of Georgia should develop a strategy paper and legislative framework for public internal financial control. In addition, the Georgian system of control and audit of public incom