The aim of the joint project of Georgian Business Institute and the First Consulting Company is to facilitate communication between Georgian and foreigner entrepreneurs, also to promote business in Georgia for foreign businesses. On the web portal business.org.ge there will be integrated into one area the ​​practical information for non-Georgian entrepreneurs. Information about Georgia (economic review of Georgia, country profile, ...) , Georgia's economic review, market reviews, information about governmental programs for Promotion Entrepreneurship, legislative regulation...

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The article is based on the information of PMCG (Policy and Management Consulting Group). Positions in international rankings are an important indicator of how a country is performing with regard to its economic, social and political environment. In this bulletin, Georgia’s positions in international rankings and their dynamics will be reviewed based on recent data. Georgia was ranked 67th among 137 countries in the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Index in 2017, 9th among 190 countries in the Ease of Doing Business ranking in 2017, 68th among 127 countries..

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The project business.org.ge is implemented by the non-profit organisation Georgian Business Institute. One of its initiators, organizers and financiers is the First Consulting Company. The idea of ​​the project emerged when the number of free consultations from the First Consulting Company to small and medium entrepreneurs, especially agro-entrepreneurs, exceeded 1,000 per year. Such high demand on free consultations from entrepreneurial society caused consulting devision into two branched: commenrial and non-commercial. Business.org.ge took charge of...

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The Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index provides a snapshot of the state of democracy worldwide for 165 independent states and two territories. The Democracy Index is based on five categories: electoral process and pluralism; civil liberties; the functioning of government; political participation; and political culture. Based on its scores on a range of indicators within these categories, each country is then itself classified as one of four types of regime: “full democracy ”; “flawed democracy ”; “hybrid regime”; and “authoritarian regime”. In the 2017 Democracy Index the average...

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The SDC funded Alliances Lesser Caucasus Programme of Mercy Corps Georgia has facilitated interventions related to agricultural information since 2008. It has reached at least 279,217 individuals and their households. The estimates are conservative and do not allow for a copying rate between people which is estimated to be 2.6 other people receiving information for every person who has directly read or watched information. The programme is currently focused on maximizing scale and deepening outreach to rural producers and inhabitants and changing how agriculture is reported...

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After identifying the Animal Movement Route (AMR) as a key constraint for the development of the Georgian sheep sector and as a lynchpin for the development of a national animal disease control strategy, the Alliances Lesser Caucasus Programme (ALCP) has advocated the improvement of the Animal Movement Route (AMR) at all levels of government, civil society and private sector stakeholders through the programme Advisory Committee since 2012. As a result, an MOU was signed between the Ministry of Agriculture and National Food Agency and Mercy Corps...

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In January – December, 2017 the number of international arrivals in Georgia amounted to 7,554,936, showing an increase of 18.8% compared to the same period of previous year. Out of the total number of visits, 3,478,932 lasted longer than 24 hours (+ 27.9%). The majority of foreign travelers were Armenian (+14.8%), Azerbaijanian (+11.2%), Russian (+34.1%), Turkish (-0.8%)  and Iranian (+118.3%). A positive trend in arrivals was also observed among citizens of the European Union countries. A notable increase was registered of British +39.9%...

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In 2011, the ALCP (Alliances Caucasus Programme) linked it’s access to finance output with its access to nutrition output (i.e. the hay making machinery equipment needed by SSLP’s to remove a key nutritional constraint to dairy and meat production). High costs and limited or expensive credit meant difficulties in replacing outdated machinery inputs which performed poor and costly hay making services for farmers. Many farmers could not take loans for purchasing livestock, farm inputs, machinery and land due to the high interest rates.

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Since 2014 the state program “Enterprise Georgia” helps entrepreneurs in financial and infrastructural support in different directions of business. In some of these areas, project business.org.ge promotes entrepreneurs with advice. These directions are: Encouragement of industry Film industry incentive The program “Film in Georgia”  is implemented by Enterprise Georgia, under …

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First consulting company systematically conduct research in agricultural sector. Since  2010 more than 100 market research has been conducted in the following sectors: milk products, slaughterhouses, meat products, fruit products, poultry and fish food, wool and wool products, regional agro-media, wine, honey, tea, veterinary service, nut, bay leaf. The timeframes of research are based on the above factors. In most cases it takes 4 weeks or more time, but the exact time is determined after the interview with the customer. Research prices depend on its volume, on the quality of cooperation by the entrepreneur and the market size.

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