Page 2 - GEORptApr19

Table of contents
1.0 Executive summary
2.0 Politics
2.1 Georgia tapped to take over Council of Europe’s rotating chairmanship from November
2.2 Russia cannot prevent Georgia joining Nato says Stoltenberg
2.3 Mikheil Saakashvili replaced at top of Georgia’s UNM opposition
2.4 Chief of Georgia’s TBC Bank testifies to parliament on “written threat” from interior minister
2.5 Georgia “faces democratic backsliding, making it vulnerable to high-level corruption”: Transparency International
2.6 Georgia retains “Partly Free” ranking: Freedom in the World 2019 survey 2.7 Polls & Sociology
3.0 Macro Economy
3.1 Macroeconomic overview 3.2 Macro outlook
4.0 Real Economy
4.1 Industrial production 4.2 Inflation
4.2.1 CPI dynamics
4.2.2 PPI dynamic 4.3 Fixed investment 4.4 Labour and income
4.4.1 Unemployment, income dynamics 4.4.2 Retail sector dynamics
5.0 External Sector & Trade
5.1 Balance of payments, current account 5.1.1 Import/export dynamics
5.1.2 Current account dynamics
5.1.3 Capital flows
5.1.4 Gross international reserves 5.2 FDI
6.0 Public Sector
6.1 Budget
6.1.1 Budget dynamics - tax issues
6.2 Debt
7.0 FX
8.0 Financial & capital markets
8.1 Bank sector overview 8.1.1 Earnings
8.1.2 Loans
8.1.3 NPLs
8.1.4 Banks specific issues 8.1.5 SMEs finance
8.1.6 Bank news
2 GEORGIA Country Report April 2019
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