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...
Fiscal policies affect households and individuals in a variety of ways. Even though these effects are likely to be different for men and women, conventional tools of fiscal incidence analysis are typically...
This poverty diagnostic reviews welfare outcomes in the Islamic Republic of Iran between 2011 and 2020, with a focus on poverty and shared prosperity. Iran is the only country in the Middle East and North...
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...
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...
The link between health problems and the consumption of tobacco, alcohol, and sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) has been widely studied. A large array of diseases is associated with tobacco, ranging from...
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 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...