This paper looks at the main two, internationally financed, reform projects that target budgetary planning and oversight. It also asks whether the Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) has succeeded in encouraging longer term policy-planning and whether the reforms to the Chamber of Control has succeeded in providing oversight.

The National Human Development Report is UNDP’s flagship research document. Undertaken every 3-4 years it examines a particular element of a country from the point of view of Human Development. Dr George Welton wrote this report, in consultation with UNDP experts, on a wide range of the the Georgian Government’s post-Rose Revolution Reforms.

In 2007 and 2008 Dr Welton worked with Platinum Real Estate, a property company based in St Petersburg to a detailed business plan and feasibility analysis of the possibility of developing student accommodation in the suburbs of Petersburg.

This paper examined whether trade between Georgia’s region of Samtskhe-Javakheti and the neighbouring Armenian region of Shirak could significantly facilitate economic development.

This report presented an overview of the Georgian economy, state of governance and sociopolitical climate in December 2007 in advance of a Strategic Planning Mid-Term Review for CARE International in Caucasus.

In 2007 Dr Welton worked for Sun Capital Partners in Georgia, a large UK-based venture capital firm, undertaking investment analysis.

This research was conducted with the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs in order to offer advice to UK Governments Department for International Development to assess whether the political will exists to undertake significant centrally coordinated Civil Service Reforms.

The paper analyses the weaknesses in the political opposition in Georgia before the local government elections in 2006.