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BlogsThe Least Healthy City in the World?
So, where is the least healthy city in the world? According to Mercer Human Resource Consulting, "The lowest-ranking city for health and sanitation is Baku in Azerbaijan, which scores just 27.6. Other low-scoring cities include Dhaka in Bangladesh, Antananarivo in Madagascar and Port Au Prince in Haiti, which score 29.6, 30.1 and 34 respectively ...
BlogsPublic Opinion in Armenia on America, Darfur, Genocide and Climate Change
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs and WorldPublicOpinion.org have released their data from several of their most recent World Public Opinion -- Global Issues surveys. The surveys cover 18 countries and the Palestinian territories and includes Armenia! (Why Armenia was chosen is an interesting issue -- anybody who knows or has thoughts about t ...
BlogsMedia Freedom in the Caucasus
May 3 is World Press Freedom Day, and an occasion to look at how the three countries are doing in terms of press freedom. Freedom House has released a comprehensive report with detailed summaries.In the Caucasus, these are the resultsGeorgia is ranked 122, and as "partially free"Armenia comes in at 142, and considered "not free"Azerbaijan shares th ...
BlogsStreet Children in Tbilisi
World Vision, a development NGO located in Georgia and worldwide, has come out with a new research report on street children in Georgia. If you are interested in the report, we would be more than happy to send it to you.Interesting findings in the report include:Many street children are coming to Tbilisi from other parts of the country.Often these ...
BlogsArmenian Election Polling
Pre-election polling has become an increasingly big business in the South Caucasus. The Armenian elections, scheduled for May 12, again illustrate this. Much of the polling appears like a quick job with little attention to scholarly rigor. However, the results from these polls are often presented as gospel, particularly in local media outlets. The ...
BlogsCaucasian Weather: Asia or Europe?
Is it Europe, or is it Asia? Quite literally, where is it on the map? On a rainy Saturday afternoon we took a look at online weather sites (we were looking for hope online), to check where the Caucasus ended up on alignments that cared little for political affiliations:CNN Weather (above) sees the Caucasus as part of Asia. Al-Jazeera (below) agree ...
BlogsSocial Capital in Armenia | Babken Babajanian
The lack of social capital is often seen as one of the main factors holding back political, social and economic development in the South Caucasus. Social capital here refers to the trust that makes cooperation possible. Without cooperation, commentators note, few ventures can succeed: successful farming relies on sharing experience, seeds, marketi ...