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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 ...
Samir Aliyev
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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Failure to Devolve: Azerbaijan Avoids Promised Devolution of Power to Municipalities by Merging Them Instead
Azerbaijan has long been expected to take concrete steps towards decentralization and strengthening local governments (municipalities).
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False Messages to the Public About Municipalities
Every year in February, when the report prepared by the Azerbaijani Ministry of Justice on the annual results of administrative ...
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The Initial Impact of the Russia-Ukraine War on Azerbaijan’s Banking System
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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How to Manage Our Apartments?
In my last post titled The Arbitrariness of Housing Cooperatives on Unprotected Private Property, I touched on how Housing Cooperatives
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The Arbitrariness of Housing Cooperatives on Unprotected Private Property
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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The President’s Special Representative: Does It Divide Responsibilities with Municipalities or Simply Rebrand of Local Executive Authorities?
In December 2021, the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev appointed a special representative to the liberated territories of the ...
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The Azerbaijani Banking Sector During Pandemic and War
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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How should self-government be established in the liberated territories?
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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35-Year-Old European Charter Obligations for 20-Year-Old Azerbaijani Municipalities
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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SOCAR: Big Problems at the Largest Company in Azerbaijan
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 deposit insurance mechanism: Protecting depositors, bankrupting entrepreneurs
The decision of the Central Bank to close 4 banks raised again the issue of the shortcomings in the deposit insurance mechanism. The ...
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