Zurab Japaridze:

“Economic growth sees a threefold decline. Shortfall in the budget borders on one billion. Next year, you [government] are planning on taking a debt of over GEL 1.1 billion. You are expanding the budget deficit.”

10/12/2013

True

The statement is accurate and nothing is missing

ბორჯომი
Irakli Gharibashvili:

Irakli Gharibashvili discusses improved (since March of the current year) economic indices.

09/12/2013

Mostly False

In the statement is the elements of the truth, but the important facts that could have made other impressions
Chiora Taktakishvili:

Gigla Agulashvili speaks about the 2013 harvest and wine export

06/12/2013

Half True

The statement is partly accurate, but the details are missing or some of the issues are without context
Nodar Khaduri:

“The number of employed grew by eight thousand in the second quarter of the current year relative to the first; furthermore, in the first quarter of this year growth had amounted to 15 thousand as compared to the first quarter of the last year.”

26/11/2013

Half True

The statement is partly accurate, but the details are missing or some of the issues are without context
Zurab Melikishvili:

“The bad state of affairs in the economy is spreading into other fields. The net profit of the railway, for instance, dropped by 40%. Fitch Ratings already wrote about this matter and negatively described the perspectives of the Georgian Railway.”

26/11/2013

Mostly True

The application is accurate, but requires additional information and/or definition
Paata Kvizhinadze:

“As of today, the Council of Appeals at the Ministry of Finance went from formal activities to real actions. It examines problematic matters and in most cases makes a decision in favour of entrepreneurs.”

25/11/2013

Half True

The statement is partly accurate, but the details are missing or some of the issues are without context
Giorgi Vashadze:

“The government is taking internal debts of unprecedented magnitude and with high interest rates which will be hard to repay afterwards.”

25/11/2013

Mostly True

The application is accurate, but requires additional information and/or definition
Giorgi Targamadze:

“Regarding the speculations that this [moratorium on agricultural land] is impeding the flow of investments and economic growth, [they are false, as] no agricultural investments are being made in Georgia.”

20/10/2013

Lie

The statement is inaccurate and the assertion in it is absurd
Zurab Tkemaladze:

“Expenditures of the Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure of Georgia amounted to 223 million lari in the first two quarters of 2013, exceeding expenditures of the same period of the last year by 21 million 700 thousand lari.”

18/11/2013

Mostly True

The application is accurate, but requires additional information and/or definition
Zurab Melikishvili:

“The Tbilisi Railway Bypass project has virtually been suspended and brought to a standstill while a massive portion of the actual construction work, roughly 80%, had already been concluded.”

15/11/2013

Half True

The statement is partly accurate, but the details are missing or some of the issues are without context
Giorgi Kandelaki:

“All these reports (NDI, OSCE), as well as the President of the European Commission, Barroso, point out that the problem was not the elections day in itself but the period preceding it…And,naturally,the problem is the pre-trial detention of political fig

14/11/2013

Mostly True

The application is accurate, but requires additional information and/or definition
Mikheil Machavariani:

“We inherited an economy which imposed 23 sorts of taxes and the heaviest tax burden while the economy we left behind has only five types of taxes. You can see for yourselves what sorts of countries Georgia has come close to in terms of low tax rates.”

13/11/2013

Mostly True

The application is accurate, but requires additional information and/or definition

Verdict Articles

“Economic growth sees a threefold decline. Shortfall in the budget borders on one billion. Next year, you [government] are planning on taking a debt of over GEL 1.1 billion. You are expanding the budget deficit.”

Irakli Gharibashvili discusses improved (since March of the current year) economic indices.

Gigla Agulashvili speaks about the 2013 harvest and wine export

“The number of employed grew by eight thousand in the second quarter of the current year relative to the first; furthermore, in the first quarter of this year growth had amounted to 15 thousand as compared to the first quarter of the last year.”

“The bad state of affairs in the economy is spreading into other fields. The net profit of the railway, for instance, dropped by 40%. Fitch Ratings already wrote about this matter and negatively described the perspectives of the Georgian Railway.”

“As of today, the Council of Appeals at the Ministry of Finance went from formal activities to real actions. It examines problematic matters and in most cases makes a decision in favour of entrepreneurs.”

“The government is taking internal debts of unprecedented magnitude and with high interest rates which will be hard to repay afterwards.”

“Regarding the speculations that this [moratorium on agricultural land] is impeding the flow of investments and economic growth, [they are false, as] no agricultural investments are being made in Georgia.”

“Expenditures of the Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure of Georgia amounted to 223 million lari in the first two quarters of 2013, exceeding expenditures of the same period of the last year by 21 million 700 thousand lari.”

“The Tbilisi Railway Bypass project has virtually been suspended and brought to a standstill while a massive portion of the actual construction work, roughly 80%, had already been concluded.”

“All these reports (NDI, OSCE), as well as the President of the European Commission, Barroso, point out that the problem was not the elections day in itself but the period preceding it…And,naturally,the problem is the pre-trial detention of political fig

“We inherited an economy which imposed 23 sorts of taxes and the heaviest tax burden while the economy we left behind has only five types of taxes. You can see for yourselves what sorts of countries Georgia has come close to in terms of low tax rates.”

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