El trabajo analiza la situacion y evolucion de la pobreza con hincapie en el acceso a los activos. Luego de un panorama de la relacion entre la pobreza y las distintas formas de capital - humano, productivo y social - se profundiza en el papel de los dos primeros. Se simulan los efectos...

More than half of those who emigrate from developing countries move to other developing countries, yet there have been few studies of the impact of this South-South migration. In this paper, we examine the impact of migration from one developing country, Nicaragua, on the labor market in another...

Despite increasing average real family incomes in Costa Rica in the late 1990s and early 2000s, poverty rates did not fall. In this paper, we argue that during this period economic growth in Costa Rica did not translate into reduced poverty because of changes in family structure and in the labor...