The halted railway route connecting Tbilisi to Moscow and Yerevan through Georgian conflicting region of Abkhazia unfolds some kind of economic reconciliation prospects as it may bring apparent economic benefits to all politically contesting parties located along the route.

Despite the large-scale overall state healthcare insurance project, corporate insurance still has a space of development at healthcare market if it focuses on individual packages and new services uncovered by the state insurance.

Georgian advertising sector became stagnated but depoliticized and more competitive after the power shift, - this is the message Transparency International-Georgia, an non-governmental watchdog sent through its report “The Georgian Advertising Market – Competition at Last?”

Eurostat, having implemented Global Assessment of Georgian Statistics System, recommends implementing more reforms so as to make Geostat, Georgian National Statistics Service, independent and free of political influence. To this end the Eurostat finds apt to put Geostat in subordination of one of the governmental structures from administrative point of view as well as make Geostat accountable against the parliament alone. Georgian sector pundits oppose the idea and believe Georgian statistics must be put as far as possible from the state structures.

A conference on the allocation of Initial Public Offering (IPO) at Warsaw stock exchange was held in Tbilisi on June 27, 2013 to encourage Georgian companies to be listed there. However, attendance of interested Georgian companies was low. The reason is lack of information and proper skills of Georgian business which shuns even local stock exchange.

TAV Georgia, a Turkish-based operator company of Tbilisi and Batumi International Airports, is expected to revise its contract with Georgian administration so as to make it mutually beneficial.

Georgian insurance sector asks for restructuring its liabilities and increase of its premiums in the state-supported social health insurance packages to escape the bankruptcy. The independent regulatory body of insurance sector will scrutinize the financial papers of companies and outline recommendations, based on which the authorities will decide whether or not to meet the insurance sector’s appeal.

Bonuses disbursed to officials employed at Georgian public service, including the state chancellery, presidential administration, ministries, parliament and other state administration related entities do not fit into the legal framework. The bonus rates are defined at personal discretion of the heads of administrations or departments and significantly exceed the average volume of bonuses adopted in the developed world.

Georgia had no official tourism strategy until now. It worked out its development strategy at last and aims to make tourism one of the leading sectors of Georgian economy.