projects addressing infrastructure and housing deficits and poverty reduction. The systematic measurement of these projects and … comprehensive neighborhood upgrading projects in Nicaragua, conducted by the Inter-American Development Bank and Housing Ministry … measured, offering important lessons on reducing qualitative deficits in housing and poverty levels that can help policy makers …

Raising the minimum wage in developing countries could increase or decrease poverty, depending on labor market … poor households. Whether raising minimum wages reduces poverty depends not only on whether formal sector workers lose jobs …