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 …

estimation of household vulnerability to poverty in Nicaragua is made. The household vulnerability is assessed as the probability … that the expected value of the logarithm of consumption is lower than the logarithm of certain threshold of poverty. Both … official and International poverty lines are considered. The estimation of the expected value and the variance of the logarithm …

This paper presents empirical results of a wide range of multidimensional poverty measures for: Argentina, Brazil … and Chile experienced significant reductions of multidimensional poverty. In contrast, in urban Uruguay there was a small … reduction in multidimensional poverty, while in urban Argentina the estimates did not change significantly. El Salvador, Brazil …