This report applies the Engendered Commitment to Equity (E-CEQ) methodology to understand the effects of the fiscal system on gender disparities in Armenia. The authors leverage data from the Living Conditions...
The primary purpose of this toolkit is to guide researchers in the analysis of the distributional impacts of tobacco taxation, especially in low- and middle-income countries, where evidence is limited...
Some of the findings of round 5 of the Georgia High Frequency Survey (GHFS) include the following: new questions on childcare, gender disparities in childcare and other household tasks, children missing...
Some of the findings of round 4 of the Georgia High Frequency Survey (GHFS) include the following: COVID-19 (coronavirus) cases have been concentrated in densely populated urban areas. By June 2021, twenty-three...
Even as the restrictions are gradually being lifted and people are slowly returning to jobs, households are still struggling with their financial situation. As of March 2021, over one-third of households...
Many of the updates this paper discusses include the following : Since round 1 of the Georgia High-Frequency Survey (GHFS) collected in December 2020, the country has observed a decline in the number of...
This Country Gender Assessment (CGA) provides empirical evidence and analyses equality between the women and men of Georgia. Methodologically, the report adopts the Gender Assessment framework proposed...
This report focuses on the findings from the Enterprise Survey follow-up on the impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis on firms in Georgia as of February 2020.
This report focuses on monitoring the impacts of COVID-19 using high frequency survey wave in Armenia from July to September 2020.
This report focuses on the findings from the Enterprise Survey follow-up on the impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis on firms in Georgia as of February 2020.
This report summarizes the main findings from the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Armenia high frequency survey, wave 1, surveys I and II (COVID-19 AHFS-1 (I & II)) as of February 2021.
This note summarizes the results of simulations of the poverty and welfare impacts of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in Armenia. First, the poverty and distributional effects are estimated using a...
This note summarizes the results of micro- and macro-economic simulations to assess the short-term impacts of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak on poverty and distributional outcomes in Armenia, Azerbaijan...
The analysis in this report uses the latest available household surveys in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia to nowcast the welfare of households in 2019 and to estimate the impact of the Coronavirus (COVID-19)...
This paper analyzes the welfare and distributional impacts of increasing taxes on cigarettes in Georgia. Increasing taxes on tobacco is an effective measure to reduce smoking. According to some estimates...
This paper assesses the welfare and distributional effects of raising taxes on tobaccoin Vietnam. Tobacco taxes are recognized as effective policy tools to reduce tobaccoconsumption and to improve health...
Tobacco taxes have positive impacts on health outcomes. However, policy makers often hesitate to use them because of the perception that poorer households are affected disproportionally more than richer...
Tobacco taxes are recognized as an effective policy tool to reduce tobacco consumption and improve health outcomes; however, policy makers often hesitate to use them because of their possible regressive...
Tobacco taxes have positive impacts on health outcomes. However, policy makers often hesitate to use them because of the perception that poorer households are affected disproportionally more than richer...