Poverty reduction is an important goalfor governments of many developing countries. This goal issynonymous with economic development and achieving a higherquality of life for all population groups. Thus, monitoringthe dynamics of poverty and inequality is implicit in themonitoring of progress in societal development. As the vastliterature shows, development progress to a large extentdepends on economic and social policies and economic growth.Thus, identifying the relationship between relevant economicvariables and poverty and inequality indicators may providepolicy guidance on what has furthered the country'sprogress. The report consists of two main parts. The firstpart discusses poverty and inequality for 2009 and, thus,from a static perceptive. So, the first section describesand discusses the main features and correlates of the poor.The goal is to provide a brief overview of poverty in theKyrgyz Republic and describe the characteristics ofhouseholds and the poor. This is achieved by considering thepoverty incidence among households and individualsdifferentiated by such characteristics as age, householdsize, employment status, educational attainment, geographiclocation, gender of the household head, and internalmigration status of the household head. This section alsoincorporates some insights on poverty from a recent studycarried out in the Kyrgyz Republic related to the povertyand social impact analysis of selected reforms in the socialprotection sector. The second section discusses the dynamicsof poverty and inequality in the Kyrgyz Republic during2006-2009. This section relates the trends of macroindicators gross domestic product, or GDP, growth indifferent sectors of the economy, the consumer price index[CPI], remittances, and social budget expenditures) tochanges in micro indicators of interest (poverty andinequality). The objective is to integrate into one coherentpicture the recent macro and micro developments. The periodof 2006-2009 coincided with the food price volatility andfinancial crisis of 2008-09. So the distinct feature of thisreport is that the impact of international instabilities isreflected in the assessment of poverty and inequality. Thereport uses two types of data: the macroeconomic, nationalaccounts data as regularly reported by the NationalStatistical Committee of the Kyrgyz Republic (NSC), Ministryof Finance, and National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic, andmicroeconomic, primary data derived from the KyrgyzIntegrated Household Survey, or KIHS (also collected by theNSC). These two might not always be consistent with eachother, but they do complement one another to provide usefulpolicy insights.
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