## Georgia: Selected Issues

_IMF Staff Country Reports, May 16, 2006_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: May 16, 2006
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451814590.002

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### Overview
- Reviews financial sector development in Georgia in recent years.
- Investigates why financial sector development has lagged behind economic development and behind developments in more advanced transition economies.
- Briefly reviews recent financial sector development in Georgia, comparing it with developments in:
  - neighboring countries in the Caucasus,
  - the seven poorest countries in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS-7),
  - the Baltics, and
  - central and eastern Europe.
- Analyzes possible factors constraining financial intermediation in Georgia and in some of the CIS countries more generally.

### Major themes and analytical focus
- Banking and financial institutions:
  - Examination of banking sector performance and commercial banks.
- Informality and fiscal dimensions:
  - Consideration of the informal (shadow) economy and its development.
  - Analysis of fiscal risks and public financial management (PFM) interactions with the financial sector.
- Governance and impediments:
  - Corruption and crime as constraints on financial deepening.
  - Institutional and reform-related topics, including references to LEPL and LEPL reform where relevant.
- Comparative transition-economy perspective:
  - Cross-country comparisons with Baltics and Central and Eastern Europe to benchmark Georgia’s financial sector outcomes.

### Key statistics and publication identifiers (as presented)
- 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

*International Monetary Fund. "Georgia: Selected Issues", IMF Staff Country Reports 2006, 170 (2006).*

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