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Transfers, Diversification and Household Risk Strategies : Experimental Evidence with Lessons for Climate Change Adaptation

Macours, Karen; Premand, Patrick; Vakis, Renos - 2012

effective policies to facilitate adaptation. This paper presents experimental evidence on a program in rural Nicaragua aimed at …

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Does Participation in Productive Associations Signal Trust and Creditworthiness? Evidence for Nicaragua

Angel-Urdinola, Diego F.; Molina, Ezequiel - 2012

This article studies the extent to which participation in productive associations in Nicaragua contributes to increase …

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Does Child Labor Always Decrease with Income? An Evaluation in the Context of a Development Program in Nicaragua

Del Carpio, Ximena V. - 2012

obtained in the context of a conditional cash transfer program in a poor region of Nicaragua in 2005 and 2006. The program has …

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Cash Transfers, Behavioral Changes, and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Macours, Karen; Schady, Norbert; Vakis, Renos - 2012

analyzes the impact of a randomized cash transfer program on cognitive development in early childhood in rural Nicaragua. It …

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Do Regional Trade Pacts Benefit the Poor? An Illustration from the Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement in Nicaragua

Bussolo, Maurizio; Niimi, Yoko - 2012

the Central American Free Trade Area agreement on Nicaragua. The authors use a general equilibrium macro model to simulate … can be as important as growth. The main policy message that emerges from the paper is that Nicaragua should consider …

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Assessing the Impact of the Investment Climate on Productivity Using Firm-Level Data : Methodology and the Cases of Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua

Escribano, Alvaro; Guasch, J. Luis - 2012

-Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. Observations in logarithms (logs) of the variables, and not in rates of growth, are pooled from all …

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Investment and Income Effects of Land Regularization : The Case of Nicaragua

Deininger, Klaus; Chamorro, Juan Sebastian - 2013

The authors use data from Nicaragua to examine the impact of the award of registered and nonregistered title on land …

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Demand versus Returns? Pro-Poor Targeting of Business Grants and Vocational Skills Training

Macours, Karen; Premand, Patrick; Vakis, Renos - 2013

communities in Nicaragua. On average, the interventions resulted in increased participation in non-agricultural employment and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012558124