We examine the profile of poverty and vulnerability in Tajikistan using household level panel data for 2004 and 2005. The drop in poverty was largely due to increase in remittances from workers working overseas. People are more likely to be poor if they live in a) rural areas, b) large...

Using the Structural Vector Autoregression (SVAR) method this paper surveys the effect of monetary and exchange rate policies on Tajikistan’s economy for the period 1996 to 2004. A number of restrictions are imposed and the contemporaneous and long-run restrictions model are used to identify...