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How to buy votes when you can’t buy votes

14 იანვარი, 2015

Today, less than democratic regimes face a serious dilemma – how do you buy votes to win an election without becoming an international pariah. Unfortunately for a society and fortunately for an autocrat, the wheels of power and administrative resources…

PISA Test | how are Azerbaijani schools doing?

4 დეკემბერი, 2012

OECD has just published their 2006 PISA results, which stands for “Program for International Student Assessment”. In PISA, 15-year olds are tested for basic abilities in various fields. The 2006 round focused primarily on science learning. A little more than…

Policy Think Tanks | A Skeptical Assessment

13 ოქტომბერი, 2008

Here is an assessment of policy research in Azerbaijan that we stumbled upon, in a yet-unpublished piece. It paints a stark picture, but we thought it provides food for discussion.

Focus on non-oil tax policy as oil revenues predicted to decline

3 ოქტომბერი, 2008

The IMF has recently published its analysis of the developments in non-oil tax policy, administration and revenues in Azerbaijan. Non-oil tax policy could be an important tool in stimulating the development of non-oil sectors of the country’s economy.…

Georgian Election | ODIHR Preliminary Report and its Percentages

22 მაისი, 2008

So the preliminary report on yesterday’s Parliamentary Elections which ODIHR has just released again notes that the count had problems.

International Survey of Think Tanks | Zilch in the Caucasus

7 სექტემბერი, 2007

The Foreign Policy Research Institute does an international survey of think tanks. Apparently they mailed 3,025 surveys to 126 countries. Of these, 817 responded in 96 countries.

History vs Public Policy

23 ნოემბერი, 2006

The Economist observes that, being caught in complex cross-tensions, it would help if the three countries of the South Caucasus cooperated on some minimally shared interests.