developing country, Nicaragua, on the labor market in another developing country, Costa Rica. We find little evidence to support … inequality or stagnating poverty in Costa Rica. …

traditional notion of income mobility as well as for mobility around extreme and moderate poverty lines. The estimates suggest … determinants of changes in poverty incidence within cohorts revealed statistically significant roles for age, gender and education … poverty. …

. This paper examines heterogeneous effects using random-assignment data from the Red de Proteccion Social in rural Nicaragua …

innovative procedure and we show its implementation by analysing the determinants of consumption in Nicaragua, based on data from …

In this paper I use a unique data set from Nicaragua to asses the behavior of persons who send money back home. I …

known form of variance I test the findings of the theoretical model with data from Nicaragua. Evidence suggests that … migrants from Nicaragua remit for altruistic reasons. Moreover some gender heterogeneity seems to exist in the remitting …

poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient … into a middle income country (ADB, 2014). This has stimulated the need to understand causes of inequality and poverty for … poverty because they will substantially undermine the economic growth if left unchecked (ADB, 2014). The objective of this …

their initial conditions in terms of poverty and inequality levels. This paper presents a framework to quantify how much … initial conditions affect poverty reduction, given a level of "effort" (growth). The framework used in the analysis allows for … the growth elasticity of poverty to vary according to changes in the income distribution along the dynamic path of growth …