developing country, Nicaragua, on the labor market in another developing country, Costa Rica. We find little evidence to support … inequality or stagnating poverty in Costa Rica. -- Costa Rica ; Latin America ; migration ; earnings ; inequality ; poverty …

"The main objective of this paper is to provide an ex-ante assessment of the poverty and income distribution impacts of … the Central American Free Trade Area agreement on Nicaragua. The authors use a general equilibrium macro model to simulate … poverty is not too large, its dispersion across households-due to their heterogeneity of factor endowments, inputs use …