The main goal of the project is to generate evidence and foster a policy dialogue for the food and energy insecurities in the Western Balkan economies pertinent to four key fronts: household livelihoods, firms’ competitiveness, fiscal space and the regional integration.
Action on the move: Monitoring, assessment and proposals for anti-crisis measures in conditions of a tight budget
The general goal of the action is to analyze and monitor budget spending for anti-crisis measures, at the national and local level, and to propose modification and/or new measures in conditions of an emphasized need for rationalization of public money spending.
Our studies in a research database of the WHO
💾 Part of our research on the economic-social effects of covid-19 published during 2020 and 2021 has been selected as influential and contained in the covid-19 research base of the World Health Organization (WHO).
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Presentation of findings at the University of Illinois at Chicago
With the presentation of the research “Transmission mechanism from the public finance management to (better) health and educational outcomes in the Western Balkans”, our Blagica Petreski concluded her stay at the University of Illinois Chicago, within the framework of The Fulbright Program supported by the U.S. Embassy North Macedonia.
Finance Think visited People Powered in New York
Our Blagica Petreski is visiting People Powered – The Global Hub for Participatory Democracy from New York, USA.
With Josh Lerner (pictured), we discussed current collaborative #initiatives and toured several completed Brooklyn projects that are working thanks to the participatory budgeting that the hub promotes and facilitates.
Finance Think is a pioneer in #participatory budgeting in municipalities in North Macedonia. On this topic, follow us in the new initiatives during 2023!