Center for Economic and Social Development

CESD focuses on policy advocacy and reform, and is involved with policy research and capacity building. CESD involves leading researchers prominent in their fields and enjoys a broad regional and international networking.

CESD ranked as one of the top think tanks in the world by

CESD is also ranked as one of the top 25 domestic economic policy thinks tanks in the world. Only CESD (ranked 19) and the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE), (Poland, ranked 21) were included in the list from Central and Eastern Europe and CIS countries.

Mission

CESD has been set up to promote research into domestic and regional economic and social issues, advocacy towards reforms and capacity building for the purpose to positively impact the policy making and improve the participation.

The focus

The Center is a leading Azerbaijani

Goals

• Policy advice and advocacy
• Government and civil society capacity development
• Public awareness, interest in involvement and participation in policy programs and reforms
• Anticorruption reforms, mechanisms, programs and tools at the policy and grassroots levels
• Understanding and application of market economy principles and values in Azerbaijan and the region
• Cooperation between educational institutions and public, private and
  NGO
  sectors in addressing the economic and social issues
• Research and programs to address sustainable development, as well as the issues on women’s rights protection, poverty reduction, Millennium Development Goals and economic and social reforms

Management

Chairman of CESD is

Publications

• Ending Dependency: How Is Oil Revenues Effectively Used in Azerbaijan? (
  ISBN 978-9952-8131-0-4
  )
• Audit in Local Government (
  ISBN 978-9952-8131-1-1
  )
• Modern Economics
• Reforms in Public Administration; Policy Recommendation
• Health Economics
• Strategy of State Oil Fund (Policy Paper)
• Azerbaijan’s Accession to the WTO (Policy Paper)
• Gender Economics; “Brain Lost” Problem in Azerbaijan (Policy Paper)
• Political Credibility; why investments go to the oil sector (Policy Paper)
• Why 90% of investments go to oil sector? (Policy Paper)
• Oil Revenues; Transparency, Effectiveness and Accountability (Policy Paper)
• Investment Strategy in Business Sector (Policy Paper)
• Social insurance in Azerbaijan: diagnostics and recommendations on policy and implementation (
  ISBN 978-9952-81-313-5
  )

CESD is a member of PASOS, CIVICUS World Citizen’s Alliance, Global Development Network, NISPAcee^{[permanent dead link]}, etc. and local partner of Global Integrity.

References

• https://web.archive.org/web/20110716095309/http://www.gdnet.org/cms.php?id=organization_details&organization_id=3845
• http://www.idealist.org/if/i/en/av/Org/152558-113^{[permanent dead link]}
• https://web.archive.org/web/20090131232059/http://pasos.org/www-pasosmembers-org/news/think-tanks-from-azerbaijan-czech-republic-and-georgia-join-pasos-network
• http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/WBI/EXTSOCACCDEMSIDEGOV/0,,contentMDK:21241045~menuPK:2872101~pagePK:64168445~piPK:64168309~theSitePK:2872075,00.html
• https://web.archive.org/web/20100613012612/http://socialinnovationexchange.org/node/1222
• https://www.ammado.eu
• http://edirc.repec.org/data/cesddaz.html
• http://www.worldpress.org/library/ngo.cfm
• http://www.nira.or.jp/past/ice/nwdtt/2005/DAT/1446.html

External links

• The Center for Economic and Social Development
• A Comparative Analysis of CIS Countries' WTO Accession, by CESD Director, World Bank paper
• CESD book, Ending Dependency on Hydrocarbon Resources
• CESD Strategy for State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan Republic
• Dövlət Neft Fondunun Sərəncamındakı Vəsaitlərin Səmərəli İstifadəsi, in Azeri
• Using Oil Revenues Effectively In Azerbaijan
• Political Credibility and Economic Development: A Case of Azerbaijan^{[permanent dead link]}
• Public Expenditure Tracking; Increasing of Role of Communities and Municipalities. Vugar Bayramov (Ph.D.) Chairman of CESD
• Anti-corruption Initiatives in Oil Sector in Azerbaijan By Vugar Bayramov, CESD Archived 2020-01-14 at the Wayback Machine