Sunday, February 12, 2006

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.

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