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Kosovo Group for Legal and Political Studies
The Group for Legal and Political Studies is a non-profit organization, based in
Kosovo. The Group’s main aim is to provide a qualitative and highly competitive
research environment with the intention to offer a new perspective for the reform,
democratization, and development of the governing system of Kosovo.
Kyrgyz Republic Central Asian Free Market Institute
The Central Asian Free Market Institute (CAFMI) promotes the principles of
free markets, rule of law, and minimal government through education, research,
and reforms in the Kyrgyz Republic. The Central Asian Free Market Institute is
among the TOP 30 Best Advocacy Think-Tanks in the World in the University of
Pennsylvania’s Global Go to Think-Tank report.
Lithuania Lithuanian Free Market Institute
The Lithuanian Free Market Institute (LFMI) is an independent, non-profit organization
established in 1990 to advance the ideas of individual freedom and responsibility,
free markets, and limited government. Since its inception, LFMI has been at the forefront
of economic thought and reform in Lithuania. Not only has LFMI helped frame
policy debates by conducting research and creating reform packages on key issues, it
has also conducted extensive educational campaigns and played a key role “behind
the scenes” in helping to craft and refine legislative proposals. LFMI promoted the
idea of a currency board and provided decisive input to the Law on Litas Credibility;
it led the creation of the legal and institutional framework for the securities market
and contributed significantly to the country’s privatization legislation; and it initiated
and participated in the policy-making process on private, fully funded pension insurance.
LFMI’s recommendations were adopted in legislation on commercial banks,
the Bank of Lithuania, credit unions, insurance, and foreign investment. LFMI significantly
influenced the improvement of company, bankruptcy, and competition law.
Macedonia The Institute for Research and European Studies
The Institute for Research and European Studies (IRES) is a think-tank determined
to achieve applied, policy-oriented research, to enable various models of informal
education, and to promote discussion on the most pressing and contemporary
political, legal, security, and economic issues within the European and international
affairs. Its areas of multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research include: EU
institutions and policies: Enlargement, Neighborhood policies and CFSP/CSDP;
European federalism and EU development perspectives; transatlantic relations;
regional cooperation; global governance; international political, legal, security, and
economic affairs, with a special emphasis on the European and the Balkan regions.
Malaysia Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs
The Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS) is Malaysia’s first thinktank
dedicated to promoting market-based solutions to public policy challenges. We
are an independent, not-for-profit organization. As a cross-partisan think-tank, we
work across the political spectrum. Our purpose is to advance market-based principles,
and we are not bound by party politics, race, or religion. Our office is in Bukit
Tunku, Kuala Lumpur, just minutes away from Parliament. We achieve our aims by
working with an extensive network of experts who share our ideals.
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