Friday, December 5, 2025

Twin Deficit

Irina Guruli is program coordinator at the Economic Policy Research Center.
Irina Guruli is program coordinator at the Economic Policy Research Center.

Twin deficit is a situation where a country’s economy is running two deficits at the same time: a fiscal deficit, and a deficit on the current account of the balance of payments. According to the twin deficit hypothesis, persistent fiscal shocks cause a deterioration

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Georgia's democratic transition

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Tedo Japaridze is Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations in the Parliament of Georgia.

I hoped to publish this in an American newspaper during Speaker Usupashvili”s visit to Washington DC, a very successful one, by the way! I wanted Americans to read that message about Georgia and the recent developments there. I did not succeed, but I want to share

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Georgia has as a high level of development

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The human development index (HDI) is a national average which hides large variations internally in a country, particularly when it comes to the Roma in southern Europe, UNDP writes. (DF Watch photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–According to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Georgia is one of the countries that have a high level of human development.

This can be gleaned from the new Human Development Report 2013 — The Rise of the South: Human Progress in

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Student protest at Agriculture University

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Education Minister Giorgi Margvelashvili met the students Tuesday. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–For the last two days, students at an agricultural college have been at the center of a dispute between the governing Georgian Dream coalition and supporters of President Mikheil Saakashvili.

The dispute began with the

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Pro-Russia party to be founded by former Georgian minister

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Valeri Khaburdzania. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A former security minister who was fired by President Mikheil Saakashvili after the Rose Revolution in 2003 is to found a new political party with a pro-Russian orientation.

Valeri Khaburdzania, who has lived in Russia for the last two years and just

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