de Hoyos, Rafael E.; Bussolo, Maurizio; Núñez, Oscar - 2012
This paper identifies and estimates the reduction in poverty attributable to the improved opportunities that … equality both in terms of employment and labour earnings. A simulation exercise shows that, at a given point in time, poverty … in Honduras would have been 1.5 percentage points higher had the maquila sector not existed. Of this increase in poverty …