According to  Prime Minister's Press Service information Prime Minister of Georgia, Irakli Garibashvili attended the political forum "Challenges of Economic Growth for Georgia", organized by Government of Georgia and the group of World Bank, yesterday. The forum was also attended by the chief economist of the World Bank for Europe and Central Asia Region, Hans Timmer. Forum participants discussed the development of the Government's policy priorities - Georgia 2020 Project for the social-economic development strategy of the country. 

Prime Minister named achieving economic growth as the priority of government. According to Garibashvili, one of the key challenges for the government would be to ensure that economic development and progress had an impact on the social and economic condition of the Georgian population. He also stressed the importance of creating such business environment in Georgia, where every entrepreneur obeys the same rules of doing business.

The project of social and economic development strategy of the country was developed with the active participation of all ministries, experts, national bank, business sector and international organizations. 

Named project was initiated by Prime Minister last year and was carried out by Ministries of Finance and Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia. 

"We listened to their evaluations. We spoke about the challenges facing our country. We discussed the problems and outlined the ways to solve them. You know that the government has a long-term strategy for the country's development, as well as local industry development strategy, but difficulties still remain” – Prime Minister told journalists after finishing the economic forum.

In addition, the Prime Minister commented on the threshold to increase up to 50% and called the bill revolutionary, which includes amendments to the election law.