01 Feb 2011 - 01 Feb 2012

growth & trade, fiscal policy, demography, labor & social policy, innovation, energy & climate

Advisory, Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics, Azerbaijan, Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia, forecasting, Labor market, social policy and social services, macroeconomics, Macroeconomics and macroeconomic policy, social policy

Advisory Service on Macroeconomic Management and Institutional Reform at the Ministry of Economic Development (MoED) of Azerbaijan

The purpose of the one year CASE Advisory Service Technical Assistance Project, is to provide high-quality policy advising and training services to the Ministry of Economic Development of the Republic of Azerbaijan with the aim of upgrading the quality of economic policy-making process in this country and enhancing the institutional and human resources capacity of this key government agency. The project is an extension of the ended Advisory Service on Macroeconomic Management and Institutional Reform at the Ministry of Economic Development, which started on 1 September 2008.

CASE experts concentrate their work on the following three thematic topics:

macroeconomic policy, including monetary and fiscal policies, price stability, budget reform, macroeconomic forecasting, impact of oil prices and revenue on economic growth and other macroeconomic indicators, inflation;
structural and investment policies;
social policy.

The project is supported by the Regional Development Initiative funded by British Petroleum, Statoil, SOCAR, TPAO, Total, LUKoil, NICO, Chevron, ExxonMobil, ITOCHU, Devon, Amerada Hess, ENI, ConocoPhillips and INPEX.

Sponsors:

Azerbaijan International Operating Company, BP Exploration (Shah Deniz) Co., BTC Co.,SCPC Co