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  "title": "Georgia: Selected Issues",
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  "summary": "This Selected Issues paper reviews the financial sector development in Georgia in recent years, and investigates why it has lagged behind economic development, as well as developments in more advanced transition economies.",
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      "heading": "Overview",
      "content": "- Reviews financial sector development in Georgia in recent years.\n- Investigates why financial sector development has lagged behind economic development and behind developments in more advanced transition economies.\n- Briefly reviews recent financial sector development in Georgia, comparing it with developments in:\n  - neighboring countries in the Caucasus,\n  - the seven poorest countries in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS-7),\n  - the Baltics, and\n  - central and eastern Europe.\n- Analyzes possible factors constraining financial intermediation in Georgia and in some of the CIS countries more generally."
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      "heading": "Major themes and analytical focus",
      "content": "- Banking and financial institutions:\n  - Examination of banking sector performance and commercial banks.\n- Informality and fiscal dimensions:\n  - Consideration of the informal (shadow) economy and its development.\n  - Analysis of fiscal risks and public financial management (PFM) interactions with the financial sector.\n- Governance and impediments:\n  - Corruption and crime as constraints on financial deepening.\n  - Institutional and reform-related topics, including references to LEPL and LEPL reform where relevant.\n- Comparative transition-economy perspective:\n  - Cross-country comparisons with Baltics and Central and Eastern Europe to benchmark Georgia’s financial sector outcomes."
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      "heading": "Key statistics and publication identifiers (as presented)",
      "content": "- Pages: 63\n- Volume: 2006\n- Issue: 170\n- Series: Country Report No. 2006/170\n- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451814590.002\n- Stock No: 1GEOEA2006001\n- ISBN: 9781451814590\n- ISSN: 1934-7685\n\nInternational Monetary Fund. \"Georgia: Selected Issues\", IMF Staff Country Reports 2006, 170 (2006).\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Georgia: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report 06/170; March 17, 2006\n  - Georgia: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report 06/170; March 17, 2006 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Georgia: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report 06/170; March 17, 2006 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "Investigates why financial sector development has lagged behind economic development and behind developments in more advanced transition economies.",
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    "Analyzes possible factors constraining financial intermediation in Georgia and in some of the CIS countries more generally.",
    "Informality and fiscal dimensions:",
    "Governance and impediments:",
    "Comparative transition-economy perspective:",
    "Pages: 63",
    "Volume: 2006",
    "Issue: 170",
    "Series: Country Report No. 2006/170",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451814590.002",
    "Stock No: 1GEOEA2006001",
    "ISBN: 9781451814590",
    "ISSN: 1934-7685",
    "**Georgia: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report 06/170; March 17, 2006**"
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