In a joint initiative, the findings of our #research will be conveyed in the magazine in a condensed form in order to bring the results of the research work and their policy relevance to a wider readership.
More at this link.
Through created knowledge and dialogue with the relevant institutions, we prioritized policies to deal with multidimensional child poverty in the three sectors: social protection, health and education.
Measuring indicators for children is crucial for monitoring the effectiveness of measures and policies and for timely correction.
Child poverty is a multidimensional problem and requires a multi-sectoral approach.
The initiative is in partnership with UNICEF MK
Representatives of the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Education and Science, the State Statistics Office, the Bureau for the Development of Education and other institutions from the relevant sectors were actively involved.
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food and 
energy price crisis.
On that occasion, our latest Policy Brief 
examines who has made the most of the government’s anti-crisis package.
The measures saved a significant #part of household income, especially the #poorer households and especially the measures from the #last package that are in force during this year 2024. However, as a significant contingent of the measures were #untargeted, especially from the #first package, they allocated/saved a larger #amount of income to wealthier households. Although the targeting of the measures from the third package is the largest of all three packages, at least two of the measures carry the risk of an increased budget burden. In particular, support for #pensioners remains relatively broadly targeted and resembles a #pre-election measure.
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On Thursday, the EESC officially launched its initiative to involve representatives of #civil society from EU candidate countries.
Finance Think is part of 
selected representatives of civil society from North Macedonia, in addition to representatives of employers and workers (unions).
As representatives of civil society from candidate countries, we will contribute to the process of drafting selected #opinions of the EESC and participate in relevant #study groups, section meetings and selected #plenary sessions of the EESC.
#EUCivilSociety #Enlargement #EESC #FinanceThink
We shared the findings of our #study on unregistered micro-executives of economic activity at the conference “Shaping the future agenda for reducing the #administrative burden in the Western Balkans”, which was held in Pristina, Republic of Kosovo, February 7-8, 2024.
The European Union and the #German Government, OECD/SIGMA and GIZ Kosovo are investing in the dialogue on the various stages of service delivery reform, with the aim of reducing administrative burdens and ensuring high-quality and easily accessible services for businesses and citizens in the #WesternBalkans.
#GrayEconomy #AdministrativeBurden
Photo credit: GIZ Kosovo
ВThe second domestic risk for inflation is what pressure the general increase in wages and pensions will have on prices. A cost of living adjustment is fine, it just preserves the real purchasing power of the recipients, but any increase above that is a risk in an inflationary environment. It is legitimate what the unions demand that wages should rise significantly, and I #agree with that, but in the long run, more wages come with more #work and greater #skills, that is, all of this defines the #productivity of labor. We suffer from chronically low labor productivity and this is a major determinant of wage growth. Let’s have no doubt that any wage growth that exceeds productivity growth will only affect #prices in the long run, so the standard of living will not improve in real terms.
More: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2coqh0KeeY
At the end of 
, a look at two #international rankings with an independent assessment of our work.
According to Webometrics, Finance Think is the fourth-ranked #research center in North Macedonia, the only #economic research center in this ranking, after the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Institute for Earthquake Engineering at UKIM and the Institute for Social and Human Sciences Skopje bit.ly/3TyVlaV
According to IDEAS/Repek at the Federal Bank of St. Louis – USA, Finance Think is the third-ranked institution in the group of ‘economic #faculties and #institutes’, after the Faculty of Economics at UKIM and the Faculty of Business Economics at UACS bit.ly/3RKs1N0
#EconomicResearch #ranking #FinanceThink
Productive discussions at the “Digitalization and Democracy” conference, which was organized by the Aspen Institute Germany and was held in Podgorica, Montenegro, December 10-13, 2023, with participants from the Western Balkans, Germany and other EU countries.
Our Maria Bašeska addressed how technology and digitization can be key to #economic development, with lessons learned from our work in the domain of #parafiscal duties. Maria’s contribution is based on a review study that Finance Think prepared at the invitation of the Aspen Institute.
#aspen #digitalization #WesternBalkans