The Poverty Argument arises from the single fact that any family with a critically low level of income and struggling to keep “the wolf from the door†must, in order to survive, send the children to work The MVF Project rejects the Poverty Argument and its implication of the...

There is lack of clarity and concepts in the Economic Survey. The Survey has not covered many topics which it was expected to cover.

"This paper identifies and estimates the strength of the reduction in poverty linked to improved opportunities for women in the expanding maquila sector. 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...