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This Life in Transition report was prepared by the Office of the Chief Economist (OCE) of the EBRD, under the general direction of Sergei Guriev and Ralph de Haas. The editor was Ralph de Haas. Cevat Giray Aksoy and Francesca Dalla Pozza provided project management support for the entire report. Ana Kresic, Valentin Moreau and Kevin Tran provided research assistance.
The writing teams for the chapters, boxes and annex comprised:
Chapter 1
Cevat Giray Aksoy
Chapter 2
Cevat Giray Aksoy
Box 1 was prepared by Ana Kresic
Chapter 3
Cevat Giray Aksoy
Chapter 4
Francesca Dalla Pozza
Annex
Francesca Dalla Pozza
Country assessments
The country assessments were prepared by Cevat Giray Aksoy and Francesca Dalla Pozza and edited by Ralph de Haas.
The authors are grateful to the following for comments and suggestions on parts of this report: Elena Ruiz Abril, Bruno Balvanera, Michaela Bergman, Christoph Denk, Alper Dincer, Jolanta Gabriel, Kristine Grun, Dimitri Gvindadze, Janet Heckman, Graeme Hutchison, Matti Hyyrynen, Anca Ioana Ionescu, Richard Jones, Vedrana Jelusic Kasic, Natasha Khanjenkova, Libor Krkoska, Matthieu Le Blan, Oleg Levitin, Francis Malige, Larisa Manastirli, Neil McKain, Jakov Milatovic, Holger Muent, Elena Petrovska, Barbara Rambousek, Peter Sanfey, Dimitris Sourvanos, Arvid Tuerkner, Grzegorz Zielinski and Emir Zildzovic.
Editorial, design and production guidance was provided by Dermot Doorly, Dan Kelly, Philippa Moore and Jane Ross in the EBRD Communications Department. The report was designed and print-managed by
Blackwood Creative Ltd; www.weareblackwood.com.
The Life in Transition Survey III
The third round of the Life in Transition Survey (LiTS III) was designed by the EBRD’s Office of the Chief Economist, Transparency International and the World Bank’s Poverty and Equity Global Practice. The EBRD and the World Bank worked in close collaboration with Professor Natalie Shlomo on the sampling and weighting of the survey. Within the EBRD, Francesca Dalla Pozza and Elena Nikolova were responsible for the implementation of the project.
The survey fieldwork was designed and implemented by a team at the research firm Kantar Public Brussels (formerly known as TNS opinion), which was selected by a competitive tender. The team was led by Marco Pelucchi, Hayk Gyuzalyan and Kristina Slavova. Many others have contributed significantly to the project, including Kantar Public Brussels staff members, teams at hub centres in Sofia and Tbilisi, and fieldwork agencies in all 34 countries. The survey relied on the work of hundreds of interviewers and the enthusiastic participation of the survey respondents in each fieldwork country.
LiTS III was funded by the EBRD Shareholder Special Fund, Transparency International and the World Bank’s Umbrella Facility for Gender Equality. This funding is gratefully acknowledged.
- The “transition region” in this report refers to the EBRD’s countries of operations that are covered in the third round of the Life in Transition Survey (LiTS): Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, FYR Macedonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, the Kyrgyz Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. It also includes Cyprus and Greece, which became recipient member countries of the EBRD in May 2014 and March 2015, respectively. The Bank’s involvement in both countries is expected to be temporary, with no new investment after the end of 2020. Please note the data for Cyprus does not include the northern part of the island.
- The survey was also implemented in the Czech Republic. Please also note that the EBRD ceased making new investments in the Czech Republic in 2007 but still manage a portfolio in the country.
- Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia and Turkmenistan are not included in the LiTS nor, consequently, in the thematic chapters of this report. Country assessments for these countries were prepared using the Gallup World Poll.
- Western Europe refers to the comparator countries – Germany and Italy – which allow us to benchmark the transition region against some advanced market economies, thereby giving a clearer perspective on the remaining challenges facing transition countries.
- All charts based on LiTS data use survey-weighted observations. Regional averages in the chapters are based on simple averages of the country scores. Regional averages in the country assessments are based on population-weighted averages of the country scores. Chart notes provide further information about the variables and data sets used in the analysis.
Country abbreviations
- ALB
- Albania
- ARM
- Armenia
- AZE
- Azerbaijan
- BEL
- Belarus
- BOS
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- BUL
- Bulgaria
- CRO
- Croatia
- CYP
- Cyprus
- EST
- Estonia
- FYR
- FYR Macedonia
- GEO
- Georgia
- GRC
- Greece
- HUN
- Hungary
- KAZ
- Kazakhstan
- KOS
- Kosovo
- KGZ
- Kyrgyz Republic
- LAT
- Latvia
- LIT
- Lithuania
- MDA
- Moldova
- MON
- Mongolia
- MNG
- Montenegro
- POL
- Poland
- ROM
- Romania
- RUS
- Russia
- SER
- Serbia
- SVK
- Slovak Republic
- SLO
- Slovenia
- TJK
- Tajikistan
- TUR
- Turkey
- UKR
- Ukraine
- UZB
- Uzbekistan
- GER
- Germany
- ITA
- Italy
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Last updated on 13 December 2016