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After the Third Municipal Merger in Azerbaijani: An Initial Assessment
Municipalities in Azerbaijan that went through a third round of consolidation completed their first fiscal year in 2025. It is still ...
is an economist and a civil society representative. He is a board member of the Center for Support of Economic Initiatives, as well as a full member for Azerbaijan of the Group of Independent Experts on the European Charter of Local Self-Government within the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe. His research covers macroeconomic policy, the financial sector, the institutional quality of local self-government, and governance mechanisms.
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Municipalities in Azerbaijan that went through a third round of consolidation completed their first fiscal year in 2025. It is still ...
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Azerbaijan has long been expected to take concrete steps towards decentralization and strengthening local governments (municipalities).
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Every year in February, when the report prepared by the Azerbaijani Ministry of Justice on the annual results of administrative ...
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A raft of further sanctions has been imposed on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. Already by the time of its invasion of Ukraine, ...
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In my last post titled The Arbitrariness of Housing Cooperatives on Unprotected Private Property, I touched on how Housing Cooperatives
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Public debates about the protection of property rights in Azerbaijan are mainly focused on the injustice of court decisions and the ...
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In December 2021, the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev appointed a special representative to the liberated territories of the ...
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As it was for other sectors of Azerbaijan’s economy, 2020 was full of hardships for the banking sector. On the one hand, the reduction ...
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The Azerbaijani government began work to restore life in the territories liberated in II Karabakh War (09.27.2020-11.10.2020). The ...
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October 15 marks the 35th anniversary of the opening of the European Charter of Local Self-Government. The Charter was declared open ...
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At an online meeting on August 6 between President Ilham Aliyev and several ministers on the socio-economic situation and the measures ...
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The decision of the Central Bank to close 4 banks raised again the issue of the shortcomings in the deposit insurance mechanism. The ...
Atakhan Abilov
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Alper Gurbanli
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Xiyue Yang
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societyIn modern political and legal theory, the concept of the nation was for a long time explained primarily through such factors as ethnic origin, ...
Araz Baghirov
religionIn the first part of this article, I sought to demonstrate how religious Azerbaijani society is and in which direction the country’s religious ...
Tinay Mushdiyeva
societyIn my previous article, I noted that traditional academic epistemology focuses on epistemic success as its object of inquiry. I argued that, for ...
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