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Armenia is a small land-locked mountainous country with relatively difficult access to regional and global markets. The … expected to achieve better transport connections and greater economic integration, discusses improvements in Armenia's cross …
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unable to leave Armenia are more likely to be jobless based on the employment status they had prior to departing for Russia … percent of temporary labor migrants might have been unable to leave for Russia owing to travel restrictions. Many Armenian … migrants in Russia are likely to lose jobs because of some halts in construction activities. Prospective migrants who were …
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Armenia, Georgia, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Tajikistan have all experienced substantial out-migration of workers and an …-Samuelson adjusted real exchange rates, and poor trade performance. In Armenia and Georgia, where remittances are a smaller share of …
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Georgia is the only country in the CAC region that can access markets around the world through its own seaports and thus less dependent on China's BRI overland corridors for trade, investment and growth. Nevertheless, the Georgian government is investing in the one BRI corridor China, Europe...
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Uzbekistan is a resource-rich country with a relatively young population of 33 million, the largest in Central Asia. It is also a geographic pivot for the region, bordering all other Central Asian countries and Afghanistan, with transit connections in all directions. As a double landlocked...
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The Kyrgyz economy has been, since its earliest days, the most liberal and open among Central Asian countries resulting in an atypical structural transformation with limited productivity growth. It was the first Central Asian country to become a WTO member in 1998 and its trade share in GDP is...
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Tajikistan is the poorest country in the region despite strong growth for nearly two decades; sustaining growth in future will need substantially higher growth in private investment and exports. Its per capita income (GNI) is close to USD 1,000 but nearly a third of its population, of around 9...
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Kazakhstan is an upper-middle income, resource rich country. Its ascent to upper-middle income status was propelled by rising oil production and booming oil prices which pushed the average annual rate to above 7 percent during 2000-2013. The halving of world oil prices and lower export demand...
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Sex ratios at birth rose sharply in the South Caucasus countries after 1991, but recent data indicate that this trend …
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In Armenia, the proportion of women among employed workers increased from 45 to 48 percent between 2008 and 2015. This … wage gap in Armenia through stylized facts and further investigates its sources. The paper finds that the gender wage gap … in hourly pay is 20 percent on average. Looking at the different percentiles, the disparity in wages in Armenia in 2015 …
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