By not achieving 3% economic growth rate, we lost GEL 300 million

The amount of investments dropped by 17% in the first three quarters of 2015… Investments in the agriculture and energy fields have also dropped

In the last three years, the government debt has increased by more than GEL 3 billion

The GDP per capita increased in 2014. However, according to the prognosis for this year, it is going to be decreased by USD 612.

"There was a 30% decrease in exports in January. The trend of the decrease in exports started approximately in August of last year."

“The number of employees in the public sector is increasing by ten thousand as the government cannot manage anything in the private sector.”

“No matter what name you give it, Lazika or Anaklia, this project is suspended today.”

“In 2013, we had a shortfall of GEL 703 million in the budget expenditures. Tax revenues decreased by GEL 633 million. This year, already in the first quarter, government receipts revealed a shortfall of GEL 62 million.”

“Tax revenues of [the first] ten months of 2012 exceed those of [the same] ten months of 2013 by GEL 96 million.”

On 13 November 2013, Finance Minister of Georgia, Nodar Khaduri, presented the draft budget of 2014...

“The bad state of affairs in the economy is spreading into other fields. The net profit of the railway, for instance, dropped by 40%. Fitch Ratings already wrote about this matter and negatively described the perspectives of the Georgian Railway.”

“The Tbilisi Railway Bypass project has virtually been suspended and brought to a standstill while a massive portion of the actual construction work, roughly 80%, had already been concluded.”

“…We declare that the current state of the economy is bad. The economy is going through a recession…”