Institutional Trust and the Informal Sector of Georgia

This article uses empirical data from Georgia to show how informal sectors participants - self-employed entrepreneurs and micro firms - are organized. Though they differ in their activities and education, they display the same motivation, attitude to formality and attitude to risk. Facilitating business registration through tax incentives is therefore not sufficient. The article also identifies the low level of trust in institutions as a barrier to the inclusion of the informal sector into the formal structures of the economy

Le mont Kazbeg, entre terre et dieux

Le mont Kazbeg, entre terre et dieux Le mont Kazbeg culmine à 5033 mètres. Il est l’un des plus imposants sommets du Caucase. Un dieu des Vainakh, un peuple descendant des Kavkaz, à l’origine du nom « Caucase », y serait enchaîné pour avoir donné le feu aux hommes. Il partage sa place avec Amirani, un autre dieu de la mythologie géorgienne, puni pour les mêmes raisons. Leur exil ressemble tout à fait à celui de Prométhée, par ailleurs également condamné par Zeus au supplice sur un rocher du C..

Transfer of heroin profiling method from conventional GC-MS to Fast-GC-MS and UHPLC-MS/MS

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Validation of a near infrared spectroscopy method for the quantitative determination of an active ingredient in non-coated pharmaceutical pellets

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Universal applicability of Total Error for the validation of bioanalytical methods

An innovative universal strategy using Total Error is thus proposed to decide about the method’s validity that controls the risk of accepting an unsuitable assay together with the ability to predict the reliability of future results. Several examples of applications of this validation methodology to various types of assays [LC-MS, ELISA, Bio-Assays] will be presented

Entrepreneurship in Georgia

This dataset contains a series of interview with entrepeneurs in Georgia. The study conducted in Georgia is based on a two-year (2014-2015), longitudinal panel survey of a cohort of 600 self-employed, micro and small businesses. The study surveyed of the same panel of 350 self-employed, 150 micro and 100 small firms in three regions of Georgia (Tbilisi, Kakheti and Adjara) four times. A stratified random sampling method was used for the survey study

entrepreneurship in Armenia

This dataset contains a series of interview with entrepeneurs in Armenia. One round of interview was conducted in Yerevan and Lori Province in April 2016. In Yerevan, 420 face-to-face interviews were planned, in Lori province, 180 face-to-face interviews were conducted. A stratified random sampling method was used

Fight against the counterfeit drugs

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