Social Science in the Caucasus

Positive expectations abound in Georgia around the potential impact of the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA) Agreement with ...

On November 29, Georgia initialed an Association Agreement with the European Union at the EU-Eastern Partnership Summit in Vilnius, Latvia. ...

Armenia's announcement in September that it would enter the Eurasian Customs Union led to some dissatisfaction regarding relations w...

As the New York Times reports, on January 23, 2012 the French Senate “approved a bill […] criminalizing the denial of officially recognized ...

A recent article in Georgia Today entitled “ India through the eyes of Georgian children ” described an exhibition, which was hosted by Bha...

How are Georgians doing financially, how much do they earn and what do they spend on? CRRC’s Data Initiative allows for an in-depth analysis...

In terms of the business findings, CRRC's Media Survey (undertaken in September/October 2009) generated extensive data that is availab...

The global financial crisis has affected 70% of Armenians, states the Economy and Values Research Center , which recently conducted a study ...

(We today noticed that we forgot to post this earlier -- apologies!) The Heritage Foundation provides visitors with the 2008 Index of Econom...

Cell phones seem to have become indispensable in the West. The number of cell phones in the UK, for instance, has already exceeded the numbe...

So what plagues local business? In many cases it's the same problem we have in politics as well: there simply is the wrong paradigm. It ...

Tbilisi radar, destroyed by a Russian missile In Georgia, attention now turns towards sorting out the impact of the short August conflict. H...

Results of the World Bank’s Doing Business 2009 project, claims to present "objective measures of business regulations and their enforc...

A slightly specialized topic: what's the cost of tourism? Often suggested as a way of developing parts of the South Caucasus, especially...