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 …

This paper describes "Nicaragua's Strengthened Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy" (SGPRS). It reflects years of …

Bolivia, Honduras and Nicaragua. Once we look at the policy failures that underlie the gap between policy objectives and the … conclude that there is a reform failure matched by a failure to reform. The Poverty Reduction Strategies of the three countries …

in Nicaragua, and in Section III we analyze changes in asset ownership and use as well as poverty status. We analyze who …While Nicaragua over the past decade has ranked among the poorest countries in Latin America in terms of per capita GDP … incidence of poverty. Nationally, the incidence of poverty among individuals has fallen from 50.3 to 45.8 percent over this …

This paper deals with consumption dynamics and its effects on poverty. An econometric model is proposed in which … changes in poverty. Second, it allows distinguishing between chronic and transient poverty, by defining as chronically poor … those households whose level of consumption sustainable in the long term lies below the poverty line. This definition of …

households out of poverty. Remittances thus may help in fighting poverty in the Philippines but not in rebalancing growth …

Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using … analysis in support of the European Commission's stated objective of fighting poverty and reducing social inequality through … considerable impact on the degree and structure of inequality and poverty (see Hauser 2008, Causa et al. 2009, Nolan et al. 2009 …