Georgia

BMI View: Georgian real GDP growth came in at 6.4% in 2012, below our previous forecast of 7.5%. This is largely due to an unexpectedly fast slowdown in the growth of gross fixed capital... 2013-05-01

BMI View: Although no candidates have been selected at the time of writing we anticipate that the party of Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili will comfortably win October's presidential... 2013-04-30

BMI View: We have revised downward our forecast for Georgian consumer price inflation to 2.0% year-on-year (y-o-y), from 3.0% previously, as well as the central bank's refinancing rate,... 2013-04-29

BMI View: We forecast Georgian consumer price inflation to rise to 2.0% by end-2013 on the back of strong private consumption figures, and a rise in exports to Russia – as... 2013-02-25

Outgoing President Mikhail Saakashvili was forced to change the venue of his last state-of-the-nation address before the presidential election is held in October. Saakashvili was initially... 2013-02-25

BMI View: We forecast Georgia's current account deficit, which stood at US$1.51bn in Q1-Q312, to grow to US$1.96bn and US$2.10bn in 2013 and 2014 respectively. However, with our projections... 2013-02-01

BMI View: The governing Georgian Dream coalition is likely to implement changes to the constitution after the presidential election, due in October 2013, in an effort to limit the individual... 2013-01-30