Projects implemented by AYE

The last project of AYE is organization of the training on "Budget process and civil society".

1. Discussion clubs, covering approximately 110 themes on social and economic development problems in Azerbaijan has been organised since the January of 1994.
2. The republican scientific and practical conference, devoted to the themes of "National economy formation problems; was held in May, 1995. The conference was organised in the hall of Academy of Sciences and the representatives of governmental and non-governmental organisations participated there. 25 reports about the important problems of Azerbaijan's economy were heard at the conference and submitted theses were published in a booklet form in 100 copies.
3. A number of interesting TV programs were prepared with the active participation of AYE.
4. AYE is performing on the radio programs as well. The members of AYE expressed interesting views about privatization, antiinflationary policy, poverty reduction, management reforms, land reform and other issues in the "Gandjlik" and "Igtisadiyat" radio programs.
5. AYE's members are the authors of 173 articles published in the press. These articles were devoted to the unemployment, population's living standards, industrial problems, inflation, privatization, bank reforms and were published in the well-known papers. The newspapers are kept in AYE's archives.
6. AYE actively participated in all scientific seminars and discussions organised by governmental and NGO institutions.
7. AYE is actively participating in the formation of a legislative base of the reforms. For example, the projects of the laws on "Free economic zones", "Foreign economic activity basis", "Checks and bills", "Limited companies" were prepared by AYE and submitted to Milly Medjlis (Parliament). These projects were prepared through the initiative of AYE itself and weren't sponsored by any organisation.
8. "Personnel Bank of Young Economists" has been founded by AYE. This bank partially provides economic institutions and structures with young specialists on relevant fields. However, this work is difficult to make effectively, because of limited technical and financial opportunities.
9. The books called "Economy of Azerbaijan and market relations", "Basics of Economic Knowledge" have been published by AYE.
10. AYE in cooperation with the Baku Asia University and the Economic Institute of Academy of Sciences Azerbaijan held a conference called "Problems of state regulation of economic processes in the transition period" in April, 1999.
11. AYE had worked out a number of projects and received grants. For example, AYE has been awarded with a grant from the Soros Foundation for the project called "Economic education at secondary schools" for the period from June 1998 to December 1998
12. AYE has been awarded with a grant from Chevron for the project called "Preparation of a book on economics" for the period from January 2000 to December 2001
13. For the period of 2001-2002, AYE has established a new program at Lider TV called "Economic monitoring" and have prepared 20 programs thus have than been broadcasted
14. Since November 2001 AYE implements the Poverty Monitoring Center project, financed by OXFAM GB. The projected will be completed in November 2002.
15. Experts of AYE participate in the preparation of UNDP's annual Human Development Report for Azerbaijan, different proposals.
16. AYE also has its web site www.aye.i8.com.
17. The Association of Young Economists and the Union of Economist Journalists held training with the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities (USA) on "Budget process and civil society", from 16 to 18 May 2003.
Training was held within the International Budget Project financed by Eurasia Foundation and Open Society Institute.