Page 2 - GEORptMar19

Table of contents
1.0 Executive summary
2.0 Politics
2.1 Georgia’s Prosecutors reveal alleged frauds of TBC Bank founders
2.2 Three MPs quit Georgian Dream in row over appointing lifetime judges
2.3 Georgia’s economy 16th freest on Heritage’s Economic Freedom Index 2019
2.4 Georgia “faces democratic backsliding, making it vulnerable to high-level corruption”: Transparency International
2.5 Georgia retains “Partly Free” ranking: Freedom in the World 2019 survey 2.6 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
8.2 Central Bank policy rate
2 GEORGIA Country Report March 2019
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