This paper provides an ex-ante assessment of the poverty and income distribution impacts of the Central American Free … Trade Area agreement on Nicaragua. A general equilibrium macro model is used to simulate trade reform scenarios and estimate … level. The final impact on poverty is not too large, but its dispersion across households is significant and should be …

Nicaragua, even in the absence of labor-saving appliances. Electricity is shown to increase the propensity of rural Nicaraguan …

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

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 …

This poverty assessment was launched with three broad objectives: (1) to update the poverty profile for Nicaragua with … finds that Nicaragua has made significant progress in reducing poverty over the last decade, despite its status as one of … greater public attention; and (3) analyze the dynamics o f families moving in and out o f poverty using panel data from the …

background document for the World Bank's Nicaragua Poverty Assessment 2007. The degree to which growth is able to translate into …The objective of this report is to provide some policy guidelines for the fight against poverty. In particular, it … growth. The report is part of a series of studies conducted within the Poverty Reduction Group (PRMPR) to foster …

This paper uses data from a Payments for Environmental Services (PES) project being implemented in Nicaragua to examine …

-sensitive framework, which is applied to the case of Nicaragua. Overall, we find that in this country, multidimensional poverty decreased … distributed in 2001 than in 2014. These findings suggest that progress in multidimensional poverty reduction in Nicaragua seems to …", and targets 1.2 and 10.1 of the SDGs, we stress that the mainstream approach to multidimensional poverty measurement in …