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GeoWel Research

GeoWel undertakes research in economic development, business and governance in Georgia and the Former Soviet Union.

Our research integrates primary and secondary materials in order to produce a comprehensive and action-oriented research document that is designed to help our clients design or modify their projects, policies or products. 

We combine international and local expertise to ensure that the highest standards of research are combined with rich and detailed local understanding. Our researchers have undertaken projects for UN Agencies like UNDP and UNICEF, for development organisations like the UK's Department for International Development, GTZ, CARE International and the International Organisation for Migration and for civil society organisations like the Eurasia Partnership Foundation and the International Budget Partnership.

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Research blog

Monday, 12 July 2010

Moving to the Poti FIZ.: A Cost/Benefit Analysis

In order to better understand the benefits of operating in the Poti FIZ, we calculated the overall savings of opening a company inside the zone.

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Tuesday, 08 June 2010

Car Imports and Consumer Confidence

The profile of car imports into Georgia can tell us a lot about consumer confidence. In particular, it seems to suggest that confidence was not as significantly affected by the war as one would think, and may now be recovering.

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Friday, 30 October 2009

Dillemmas for the Wine Business

The Georgian wine market was dramatically damaged by the Russian wine embargo. The government response to this has been to aggressively promote Georgian wines abroad. This was fairly successful in promoting Georgian wine as a high-end product until the global recession hit sales but seems unlikely to help small producers anytime soon.

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Publications

UNDP Georgia National Human Development Report (2008)

UNDP Georgia National Human Development Report (2008)

An overview and human development analysis into post-revolutionary reforms in the rule of law, economic development, poverty reduction, healthcare, education and the environment.


KfW Protected Areas Financial Analysis and Project Development

Financial planning, financial feasibility analysis and budget development for Euro 9 million Georgia protected area system project.

CARE International Underlying Causes of Poverty and Program Development (2010)

Research on underlying causes of agricultural poverty in Georgia looking at governance, civil society, insecurity and markets and linkages. This research was conducted to help CARE International in the Caucasus develop its overall program trajectory.

GTZ Caucasus Local Government Assessment (2010)

This research analysed the structure and operation of local government in order to support the development of a GTZ Local Government Project