Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Managing non-performing loans in Georgia

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Irina Guruli is Program Manager at the Economic Policy Research Center.

TBILISI, DFWatch–The problem of bad loans gets huge attention nowadays. It has become a headache for all from bank managers to government authorities. Bad loans were basically the driver of the recent world economic downturn. The situation is no different in Georgia.

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Saakashvili's appointment as 'Senior Statesman'

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John C. Kornblum is an American diplomat and businessman. (Photo: International Students’ Committee.)
This letter was published January 21, 2014, in The Tufts Daily, a student newspaper at Tufts University.

I was distressed to read in your newspaper that former Georgian President Saakashvili had been appointed as a so-called “Senior Statesman” at the Fletcher

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Seeing Georgia plain

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Paul Goble is an American analyst and columnist.

Almost two centuries ago, the Scottish poet Robert Burns wrote in an oft-cited verse “And would some Power the small gift give us/To see ourselves as others see us! /It would from many a blunder free us, /And foolish notion:/What airs in dress and gait would leave us, /And even devotion!”

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Better regulation of vehicle procurement by public offices

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Sopho Chareli is a Project Lawyer at Georgian Young Lawyer’s Association.

The issue of procuring vehicles by public agencies has frequently been discussed by the public and the media for the past several years. Procurement of luxurious cars by high state officials with state money has also been criticized.

State procurement which is linked

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