Challenge At the start of the project in 2012, Armenia faced many adverse conditions. The country’s tax-to-GDP (16.3 percent) and tax productivity were persistently below regional averages and other lower-middle-income...
Date: November 7, 2016Type: Results Language: English
Gohar Avagyan, a 30 year veteran at the National Archives of Armenia, can hardly recall a time in her career when she and other employees did not have to check the condition of precious documents after...
Date: February 26, 2015Type: Results Language: English
Challenge Armenia is a middle-income country with poor labor market outcomes, high unemployment, inadequate coverage of social protection, and insufficient investments and firm creation. Triggered by...
Date: April 15, 2014Type: Results Language: English
Challenge Community development across Armenia was hampered by poor social and economic infrastructure, largely reflecting years of failing to invest in and maintain existing facilities. Social infrastructure...
Date: April 15, 2014Type: Results Language: English
Challenge Transport infrastructure and services still need to be made safer, cleaner and more affordable, particularly in developing countries. Provision of transportation needs to respond to: increasing...
Date: April 9, 2014Type: Results Language: English
Challenge Uncertainty about land ownership and occupancy rights not only complicates development planning for governments, it can also increase vulnerability, especially of poor and marginalized groups....
Date: April 2, 2014Type: Results Language: English
Challenge The global connectivity explosion that infoDev championed throughout the last decade has broken new paths to bring high-quality jobs to the marginalized. Accordingly, infoDev has refocused from...
Date: February 28, 2014Type: Results Language: English
Four and five year olds in the Armenian region of Vayots Dzor are finally learning the simple but imperative skills, which will make them better students in their studies ahead. Their classroom, educational...
Date: November 7, 2013Type: Results Language: English
Her library in the Armenian village of Tandzatap may be small, but veteran school teacher, Angela Grigoryan, says it is a big part of her life. So, when the community center which houses the library began...
Date: November 7, 2013Type: Results Language: English
Kostantine Yenkoyan is a professor of biochemistry at the Yerevan State Medical University. In addition to teaching, he is part of a project aimed at establishing and strengthening Armenia’s quality...
Date: November 7, 2013Type: Results Language: English
Printing has a long tradition in Yerevan, one the Samark Company has been proud to keep alive, printing books, newspapers and magazines with forty employees. But maintaining an edge in a competitive market...
CHALLENGE Encouraging gains in halting and beginning to reverse the spread of major communicable diseases—such as HIV/AIDS and malaria—are promising, but there is still much to be done to achieve the Millennium...
Date: April 9, 2013Type: Results Language: English
Challenge The crisis revealed deep-seated vulnerabilities in Armenia’s precrisis period: overdependence on the export of copper and other minerals and remittances for the financing of imports, and excessive...
Date: January 14, 2013Type: Results Language: English
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