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Policy approaches to stimulate exports: the case of Georgia

What barriers do Georgian exporters face, and which public export promotion approaches could help an upper-middle-income country stimulate exports?

Andreas Klasen, Tengiz Lomitashvili, Kristian Rosbach and Kiyoshi Taniguchi · Public Administration and Development 44(3), 150–156 · 2024

Abstract

Based on fieldwork in Georgia, the article examines exporters’ challenges and the public interventions that could help, finding barriers such as complex trade regulation, limited knowledge of target markets, trade finance gaps and competitors’ export promotion programmes. It concludes that exporters benefit most from a comprehensive export promotion strategy combined with an ecosystem-based ‘team’ approach, with awareness and capacity-building programmes as a core element.

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