Social Science in the Caucasus

Looking at the association between an individual’s social status and his/her standing in the labor market, the first part of this blog post...

Taxi drivers tell perhaps the most telling story of Georgia’s economic transition. They often complain that the transition made their high ...

The recently updated database of the World Governance Indicators (WGI) shows an improvement in Armenia’s ranking in political stability, fig...

By David McArdle In recent weeks, CRRC have focused on levels of happiness and satisfaction in the Caucasus. In line with this theme, the Wo...

By David McArdle & Jesse Tatum On a roll with the life satisfaction comparisons, we were curious to place Georgia within a broader conte...

Freedom House has just released its Nations in Transit report for the year 2010. The report attempts to quantify democratic development in...

The US magazine Foreign Policy and the D.C. think tank Fund for Peace released their 2009 rankings of failed states , presenting Armenia as...

The EBRD Life in Transition Survey, as we at the CRRC blog previously mentioned , is available for download . The survey, measuring attitude...

According to a Gallup poll , Azerbaijan is considered to be one of the least religious countries in the world. Now, whereas this may be shoc...

How have Caucasus currencies developed against the dollar? This question is not entirely trivial, since significant parts of the local econo...

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

Freedom House has just released its Freedom in the World report, for the year 2008. The report quantifies political rights and civil libert...

In June Freedom House released its 2008 annual Nations in Transit Report covering January 1, 2007 through December 31, 2007. The Nations in...

One of the most impressive recent survey efforts, measuring attitudes about different countries in transition, has been undertaken by EBRD. ...

Indices are engaging and instructive, but some really baffle us. The World Economic Forum (WEF), the organisation that organises the annual...

Yet another index, and one with little happy news. How does world press freedom look? Reporters Without Borders, an advocacy group founded i...

What is the average Armenian secondary school student’s competence in Maths and Science? Is Armenia doing fine, or is it time for the educa...

A previous blog entry on Millennium Challenge Corporation ’s Meta-Index , as you may recall, presented Georgia ’s performance. For those who...