Marc Miles in Tbilisi

Marc Miles – the main author of famous research of Economic Freedom Index at Heritage Foundation (www.heritage.org – conservative think-tank in Washington DC, USA) visits Georgia the next week from Feb 15 to Feb 19, 2006. His mission is to explain the ideas and the importance of Economic Freedom and the methodology how the group of authors evaluate EF for different countries and especially for Georgia.
The last results of the research of EFI were published on January 4th, 2006 and emphasized great step forward for Georgian economy – that now has 68th place instead of 100th out of 160 countries in 2005.
After the publication the Georgian public opinion had divided in two – who agreed with this progress in the EFI and who look very skeptically on this.

Full description of the EFI research of 2006 you can find here.

New Seminar in Gurjaani

New Economic School - Georgia holds the next seminar in Gurjaani, Georgia from February 23 to February 26, 2006. Gurjaani is a small town in the east part of Georgia.
The seminar name is Liberty and Property and is designed for discussing the role of the property for a individual and a society.
Participants of the seminar will be chosen through applications. Most of them will be young politicians and students interested in Free Market issues.
All, who want to participate please contact Mr. Paata Sheshelidze through
e-mail: paatasheshelidze@gmail.com or
cell phone: 893305468