Georgia Selected Issues

This Selected Issues paper assesses macroeconomic and structural reforms in Georgia. The government’s reform package includes a fiscal policy within a declining deficit path which intends to incentivize private investment, a scaling up of public investment, improvement in government’s efficiency, an...

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Corporate Author: International Monetary Fund Middle East and Central Asia Dept
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. International Monetary Fund 2018
Series:IMF Staff Country Reports
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653 |a Labour; income economics 
653 |a Employment; Economic theory 
653 |a Public finance & taxation 
653 |a Export diversification 
653 |a Industrial productivity 
653 |a Labor markets 
653 |a Aggregate Labor Productivity 
653 |a Unemployment 
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653 |a International economics 
653 |a Demand and Supply of Labor: General 
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653 |a Wages 
653 |a Intergenerational Income Distribution 
653 |a Public Finance 
653 |a Employment 
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520 |a This Selected Issues paper assesses macroeconomic and structural reforms in Georgia. The government’s reform package includes a fiscal policy within a declining deficit path which intends to incentivize private investment, a scaling up of public investment, improvement in government’s efficiency, and an education reform. Based on modeling analysis, the implementation of this package will provide significant benefits to the economy. Over the long term, real GDP is estimated to be about 5 percent higher than in the baseline and—in the path toward the new equilibrium—annual growth about 0.7 percentage points higher over the medium term. The education reform has sizeable effects, but they only come into effect in the long term