2008

A story told by a researcher recently returned from Afghanistan, working on a development program. Here he is asking people in a village:
Richard Rose, a renowned specialists in the field of Social Capital, is currently visiting Georgia to deliver trainings at CRRC. He offered a public lecture setting out the case for conducting surveys, and entitled “Counting People Helps Make People Count”.…
A slightly specialized topic: what’s the cost of tourism? Often suggested as a way of developing parts of the South Caucasus, especially Georgia, quickly, it’s interesting to take a quick look, since in tourism many factors interact: business, environment, architecture,…
A previous blog entry on Millennium Challenge Corporation’s Meta-Index, as you may recall, presented Georgia’s performance. For those who do not know, Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) uses data from the research of various organizations such as the IFC, the World Bank…
We have recently conducted 20 focus groups across Georgia. (More on the content later.)
Here are some basic tips and tricks we found useful.
This report tells the life stories of the first generations of young people to grow into adulthood since the South Caucasus countries became independent post-communist states in 1991.
Yet another index was released recently — Brookings Index of State Weakness in the Developing World. One professor of mine in graduate school, who was a veteran hot spot worker, related that all of the conflict professionals keep their eye on…
Corporate Social Responsibility, a fashionable issue, is becoming a topic in the South Caucasus as well. CRRC research fellow, Giorgi Meladze, explored Georgian corporations’ generosity in his research undertaken in 2006.