Social Science in the Caucasus

  Note: This article first appeared  on the Caucasus Data Blog , a joint effort of CRRC Georgia and OC Media. It was written by Dustin Gilbr...

Note: This article first appeared on the  Caucasus Data Blog , a joint effort of CRRC Georgia and OC Media. It was written by Givi Silagadze...

According to CRRC’s 2017 Caucasus Barometer (CB) survey , 46% of the population of Georgia report having personal debt. Although having deb...

The first part of this blog post showed that people who report being in a worse economic situation are more likely to have debts in Georgia....

In Georgia, where, according to the World Bank, a third of the population live on under USD 2.5 per day , poverty and unemployment are consi...

After the collapse of the Georgian economy in the 1990s, the country slowly started to recover, and between 2000 and 2014, the gross nati...

The world population is getting older, and this trend will likely continue as a result of decreasing mortality and declining fertility. Int...

With the recently concluded Olympics in Sochi and the controversies surrounding them, one might be interested in understanding how populatio...

Following the world financial crisis of 2007-2008 and the global recession of 2008-2009, GDP growth slowed and unemployment increased in man...

Quality of life and life satisfaction has been a central topic in social science research, as well as an increasingly popular area of inter...

The 2011 Caucasus Barometer asked the Georgian population, “Relative to most of the households around you, would you describe the current ...

Continuing to explore standards of living in the South Caucasus, this blog looks at the between four sources of household income and materi...

Unemployment clearly is one of the pressing issues in the South Caucasus. But there is a lack of reliable data on people being without and l...