trial data, which were collected for the evaluation of the 2006 Nicaragua conditional cash transfer program. This social …

obtained in the context of a conditional cash transfer program in a poor region of Nicaragua in 2005 and 2006. The program has …

"The main objective of this paper is to provide an ex-ante assessment of the poverty and income distribution impacts of … the Central American Free Trade Area agreement on Nicaragua. The authors use a general equilibrium macro model to simulate … poverty is not too large, its dispersion across households-due to their heterogeneity of factor endowments, inputs use …

beneficial to developing countries. Nicaragua presents an interesting case in point, being one of the poorest economies in Latin … America with still a relatively large agricultural sector and high degrees of rural poverty. In 2005, the country signed a … does so using a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model for Nicaragua coupled with a micro-simulation methodology. The …