This paper discusses why Nicaragua is today one of the poorest countries in the region of Latin America and the … Caribbean. Lack of sustained economic growth is viewed as the main cause of poverty in the country. The effects of political …

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 estimates multidimensional poverty in Nicaragua applying the methodology developed by Alkire and Foster … case of Nicaragua. In general, this paper, in addition to questioning the official poverty estimates in Nicaragua and to … Programme (UNDP), since the MPI captures acute poverty and, therefore, provides relatively low estimates for Nicaragua. To the …

geographic placement of supermarket supply chains in Nicaragua between 2000 and 2008 and uses a difference …

of the poverty line. …

Chile provides an interesting setting to analyze vulnerability to poverty, especially today, after the last poverty … count presented in 2013 by the Ministry of Planning. After twenty years of declining poverty, national indicators showed an … increase in poverty from 13% in 2006 to 14% in 2011. Using the CASEN panel data set, this paper explores some of poverty …