Within the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the gender equality in education is considered one of … narrowing down the gender gap in education for the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels. More specifically, and among many … other factors, the study focuses on the response of gender gap in education to economic growth, information communication …

This paper assesses the political and socio-economic consequences of the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) in Honduras … pillar of the PRS towards infrastructure investments and trade integration, Honduras may have lost yet another opportunity to …

competitiveness of exports. Chapter 5 proposes a trade strategy for Honduras in the light of its existing national development plan …

a loan via changes in credit demand and supply. Empirical evidence from poor rural households in Nicaragua shows CCTs …

This paper finds that the proliferation of fiscal incentives in the form of tax exemptions in Nicaragua since 1990 … productive investments, Nicaragua’s tax incentives are merely “assistentialist” and lack effectiveness. For a dynamic industrial …

This paper discusses why Nicaragua is today one of the poorest countries in the region of Latin America and the …

This paper estimates multidimensional poverty in Nicaragua applying the methodology developed by Alkire and Foster … using the 2001, 2005 and 2009 Nicaragua Living Standards Measurement Survey data. Eleven dimensions are considered and three … case of Nicaragua. In general, this paper, in addition to questioning the official poverty estimates in Nicaragua and to …