Reducing outdoor air pollution can be achieved by strengthening air quality monitoring and regulating traffic and industrial emissions. Advancing existing initiatives by exercising more control over car...
Air pollution profoundly impacts welfare, causing more deaths globally than malnutrition, AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined. In the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, air pollution levels exceed international...
Air pollution has profound impacts on welfare, causing more deaths globally than malnutrition, AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined. Poorer households are often more vulnerable due to residential sorting...
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...
This study compares the distributional impacts of the main tax and social spending programs in eight countries of the former Soviet Union (Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, the Russian Federation...
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 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)...
The people of the South Caucasus aspire for their countries to become strong middle-class societies, and they are on track to make that aspiration a reality. Two decades of social and economic progress...
There is considerable public concern about the level of household indebtedness in Georgia. The new regulation expected to come into force on November 1, 2018 addresses this concern by enforcing the responsible...
Gender equality is a core development objective in its own right, and it is also smart economics. Greater gender equality pays off by helping advance a host of development goals, such as improvements in...