income poverty and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) at the country level, and to compare LAC estimates to …

The paper investigates the effect of remittances on the coverage of financial deficits arising during youth and …, Honduras, Mexico and Nicaragua to perform a number of econometric tests exploring the linkage between remittances and a battery …, with variations across countries and regression specifications, remittances generally appear to exert a positive and robust …

The study of the impact of public investment on poverty is currently of particular importance due to, among other … results to impute income in the MECOVI 2007 survey. In this way, we calculate various measures of poverty and indigence, and … poverty and indigence in Bolivia, however this effect is small. The most important results are evident in the headcount index …

. -- crisis ; infant mortality ; maternal mortality ; low birth weight ; poverty ; Argentina …