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Irakli Gharibashvili discusses improved (since March of the current year) economic indices.
Presenting the government programme to the Parliament on 19 November 2013, candidate for Georgia’s
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“The number of employed grew by eight thousand in the second quarter of the current year relative to the first; furthermore, in the first quarter of t...
On 19 November 2013, the government member candidates met with the Parliamentary Minority and
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“The bad state of affairs in the economy is spreading into other fields. The net profit of the railway, for instance, dropped by 40%. Fitch Ratings al...
At the plenary session held on 14 November 2013, the MP of the United National Movement Zurab
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“The government is taking internal debts of unprecedented magnitude and with high interest rates which will be hard to repay afterwards.”
Delivering a speech at the plenary session of the Parliament on 30 October 2013, representative of
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“The Tbilisi Railway Bypass project has virtually been suspended and brought to a standstill while a massive portion of the actual construction work, ...
Criticising the new government’s economic policy at the plenary session of 18 September 2013, the
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“We have helped 710 thousand farmers and given them vouchers of 500 lari.”
During the presidential debates organised by the Georgian Public Broadcaster on 17 October 2013,
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“We inherited an economy which imposed 23 sorts of taxes and the heaviest tax burden while the economy we left behind has only five types of taxes. Yo...
Delivering a speech at the plenary session on 1 October 2013, representative of the Parliamentary
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“There is a shortfall in the budget of GEL 500 million”
At the Plenary session of 27 September 2013 the Parliament of Georgia discussed the issue of
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Giorgi Margvelashvili discusses the achievements in the fields of healthcare and social affairs.
On 9 September 2013, as a part of his election campaign, Georgian Dream presidential candidate
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“According to the data of the UN, 13% of the Georgian population (600,000 persons) spends only two lari a day on everything, including food. This mean...
At the presidential debates aired on the Georgian Public Broadcaster on 17 October 2013, Giorgi
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“Not a single tetri of the next year’s state budget is allocated for the increase of pensions.”
At the presidential debates held on 17 October, Davit Bakradze, presidential candidate of the
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“There are no benefits for small and medium businesses. They are taxed equally as the big banks, the big oil distribution companies and so forth.”
On 23 September 2013, presidential candidate Giorgi Targamadze stated on the Second Channel of the
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“Thousands of families [children with disabilities] expected a 30 lari increase in their pension starting from September but the pension grew only by...
On 20 September 2013, Giorgi Targamadze, presidential candidate for the Christian-Democratic
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“Regarding the speculations that this [moratorium on agricultural land] is impeding the flow of investments and economic growth, [they are false, as]...
On 3 October, an article was published in Rezonansi which presented the viewpoints of the
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“The subsistence level is not being raised and the methods of its measurement remain unchanged.”
Giorgi Targamadze, presidential candidate for the Christian-Democratic Movement, held a press
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