The Law of the Kyrgyz Republic “On Microfinance Organizations in the Kyrgyz Republic” dated July 23, 2002, No. 124 (Law) explicitly states that microfinance organizations must have social goals. Microfinance...
Sustaining Uzbekistan’s rapid pace of poverty reduction will necessitate additional efforts from the government to enhance the productive capacity of poor households. The data show that poorer households...
Poverty is a complex social and economic phenomenon and the activities designed to overcome it can be rather multi-faceted and implemented at a level of the whole country, a region, a settlement or an...
Kyrgyzstan is a lower middle-income country in Central Asia, with the population of 6.2 million. How redistributive are the fiscal policies is a question of particular importance to Kyrgyzstan. On the...
The Kyrgyz Republic has made impressive progress in poverty reduction, reducing the 2017 PPP adjusted US$3.65 per day poverty rate by nearly half: from 24.8 percent in 2010 to 11.7 percent in 2019. However...
Tajikistan's economy performed strongly over the last decade, with GDP growth averaging above 7 percent. Despite good economic performance, Tajikistan remains the poorest country in the ECA region, with...
Kazakhstan has achieved large reductions in poverty over the past two decades. Both national poverty estimates and internationally comparable poverty rates defined as the share of the country's population...
Uzbekistan has made notable progress in reducing poverty since 2021. The poverty headcount rate based on the national poverty line fell from 17.0 percent in 2021 to 14.1 percent in 2022, and then further...
Microfinance institutions (MFIs) in particular have a goal to provide accessible microfinance services to the population to contribute to poverty reduction, improved employment rate, development of entrepreneurship...
This report describes a proposal for defining a national poverty line in Uzbekistan and policy considerations for how such a line ought to be used. The approach uses the cost of basic needs method and...
This technical note has been created in an attempt to document the changes in the design of the Kyrgyz Integrated Household Budget Survey (KIHS) and the impact that those changes might have on construction...
The note objective is to simulate the potential shot-term poverty and employment effects of the COVID-19 outbreak in the Kyrgyz Republic. The pandemic has complex direct and indirect economic impacts at...