Through various decrees from the Interim Taliban Administration (ITA), women and girls have been systematically excluded from public and political domains, and restricted in their freedom of expression...
This brief provides the results of Round 2 (R2) of the Afghanistan Welfare Monitoring Survey (AWMS). The World Bank conducted the survey from June to August 2022 to assess changes in basic living conditions...
This brief reports on the results of a household survey conducted by the World Bank in the fall of 2021 [October to December] to assess changes in basic living conditions in Afghanistan in the early days...
Ratings of Republic of Azerbaijan : National Strategy for the Development of Statistics (NSDS), Including Detailed Institution, Human and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Capacity Building...
North Macedonia has made considerable progress in recent decades, moving from lower-middle to upper-middle income status, and from a planned to a functional market economy. Despite these reforms, the domestic...
The objectives of this study are to understand the determinants of reservation wages and measure the gap between reservation and market wages in North Macedonia. The study makes use of recently collected...
The objectives of this study are to understand the determinants of reservation wages and measure the gap between reservation and market wages in North Macedonia. The study makes use of recently collected...
The objective of the NSDS, Including Detailed Institution, Human and ICT Capacity Building Plans Project for 2017-2022 is to support the State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan in the...
This report analyzes issues related to international migration in Armenia and its impact on Armenian households’ welfare. The report uses microdata coming from two recent household surveys, the 2017 Russian-Armenian...
The analysis presented in this study points to persistent and high numbers in Georgia and Armenia of youth who are jobless and/or economically inactive and with limited access to learning and/or training...
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...
This paper uses an extended cost-benefit analysis to estimate the distributional effect of tobacco tax increases in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The analysis considers the effect on household income of an increase...
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...
This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of economic and social mobility in countries in the South Caucasus by complementing available household survey data in each of the countries in the subregion...
This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of economic and social mobility in countries in the South Caucasus by complementing available household survey data in each of the countries in the subregion...
In addition to its impact on economic growth and macroeconomic stability, fiscal policy affects the distribution of income across households and individuals through the use of taxes and expenditures. As...
Despite significant improvements in per capita expenditures and a marked decline in poverty over the 2000s, a large fraction of Eastern Europe and Central Asia's population reports their economic situation...
Despite significant improvements in per capita expenditures and a marked decline in poverty over the 2000s, a large fraction of Eastern Europe and Central Asia's population reports their economic situation...
This report is the second edition in series of economic updates designed to monitor and assess recent developments in Georgia. It presents a concise overview of macroeconomic, political and structural...
The present work is based on an analysis performed in-situ by World Bank staff on the offices of the FYR Macedonian SSO, given the restricted-access policy for the data. The analysis is expected to be...