situation. Chapter 2 examines poverty in Nicaragua today and during 1993-98 and includes the results of a qualitative assessment …The purpose of this Poverty Assessment is to provide background material and analysis that will assist the Government … of poverty. Chapter 3 looks at public expenditures in the social sectors and their impact on poverty. Chapter 4 looks at …

situation. Chapter 2 examines poverty in Nicaragua today and during 1993-98 and includes the results of a qualitative assessment …The purpose of this Poverty Assessment is to provide background material and analysis that will assist the Government … of poverty. Chapter 3 looks at public expenditures in the social sectors and their impact on poverty. Chapter 4 looks at …

expenditures in Nicaragua with a view toward assessing their consistency with the priorities expressed in the recent Poverty … information. The second objective of the PER is to diagnose Nicaragua's institutional capacity to implement the poverty reduction … Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP), as well as recommending ways to improve their poverty reducing impact. The PRSP puts heavy …

In Nicaragua – one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere - a new type of intervention has been developed … “Programa de Facilitadores Judiciales” now covers all rural communities in Nicaragua, is being extended to urban areas, and has …

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

This note extends the Ravallion and Huppi (1991) aggregate poverty change decomposition, to account for the distinct … contribution of migration and differential natural population growth between sectors to the aggregate poverty change. We apply our … on national poverty change …

uniform approach to poverty assessment based on basic human capabilities for three countries: Nicaragua, Tanzania, and Vietnam …We argue that inter-country comparisons of income poverty based on poverty lines uniformly reflecting the costs of the …. We compute standard errors of the resulting poverty estimates and compare the incidence of poverty across these three …