Efforts by the reformist parliament to investigate and counter the lack of transparency in privatization cases have been stymied by pressure from corrupt and criminal elements and by a lack of experience in the procedural aspects of investigative commissions. President Shevardnadze has stated that he will push forward to expand the number of privatized enterprises. The process of privatization has not touched Abkhazia or South Ossetia, and it has barely begun in the autonomous Republic of Ajaria. Georgia's electrical energy sector is in critical condition. Employees have gone for months without payment of salaries.
Privatization is the only means to generate the capital needed to rehabilitate the sector.
Georgia's transportation and communications infrastructure are in very poor condition, due to a lack of investment. Parliament has set an agenda to start the privatization of the telecommunications industry, although there is still resistance to the plan and Parliament needs to draft implementing legislation. While approximately eighty percent of the Georgian economy is agricultural, crops spoil in the field because farmers either cannot get their produce to market or must pay production costs that drive market prices above those for food stuffs. Over the past two years the government has instituted dramatic reform measures that have halted the economic free-fall. Unemployment remains high, however.