South Caucasus in Motion : Economic and Social Mobility in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia
This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of economic and social mobility in countries in the South Caucasus by complementing available household survey data in each of the countries in the subregion with other sources, such as the Life in Trans...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2018
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/534501517839334281/South-Caucasus-in-motion-economic-and-social-mobility-in-Armenia-Azerbaijan-and-Georgia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29317 |
| Summary: | This paper presents a comprehensive
analysis of economic and social mobility in countries in the
South Caucasus by complementing available household survey
data in each of the countries in the subregion with other
sources, such as the Life in Transition Survey (2016). The
first part of the paper -- concentrated on intragenerational
mobility -- finds that despite progress made in reducing
poverty over the past decade, there appears to be a
significant amount of churning around the poverty line.
Moreover, in Georgia and Armenia, roughly one in eight
individuals lived in a state of chronic poverty in 2015, and
in the case of Georgia, chronic poverty is not an exclusive
phenomenon for rural areas. In addition, although social
programs have provided a lifeline for the chronic poor, the
ability to tap into labor market opportunities has been the
ticket out of poverty. The second part of the paper expands
the analysis to intergenerational or social mobility. The
main findings are that (1) a higher proportion of the
population in this subregion considers their pre-transition
family life and the lives of their parents when they were of
similar age as appropriate benchmarks to evaluate their
current economic situations in comparison with the other
transition countries, and (2) over half of the Georgian and
Armenian population disagreed with the statement that asked
their views on having a better in life than their parents,
aligning with the “growing but unhappy” trend that has been
reported for the region. |
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