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Mate Gabitsinashvili
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Mate is a Georgian political economy analyst and a TV host at the Georgian Public Broadcaster. He reports about the crisis of the global financial economy, the origins of neoliberal transformation an
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Opinion | Georgia's neoliberal agony

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In Georgia, the state has given up on development. Neoliberalism is exhausted — there’s nothing left to sell or deregulate. Georgia is bracing for parliamentary elections in 2020 – and the country is already now in crisis mode. While Georgia’s political party landscape suffers from extreme polarization, the conflicts are not about ideological differences, let alone the development agenda for the country. The popularity of the ruling party ‘Georgian Dream’ is dropping, but there is no sign o