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  1. Library Resource

    Volume 3. Unlocking Potential in Rural Areas - Geographic Analysis

    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    October, 2012
    Nicaragua, Panama, Honduras, Central America, Latin America and the Caribbean

    The Central America region is a small market. The region contains around 43 million inhabitants (0.6 percent of total world population) who generate around 0.25 percent of the world's Gross Domestic Product (GDP). While the region has successfully embarked on a regional integration agenda and has strong commercial links with the US, extra-regional trade-mainly with large fast-growing emerging economies-remains a challenge.

  2. Library Resource
    August, 2013
    Nicaragua

    The report reviews basic growth, as
    being one of four pillars for Nicaragua's poverty
    reduction strategy. The well-being of the rural poor will
    continue its dependence on - to a great extent -
    agriculture. The study analyzes main agricultural
    development aspects, and stipulates the broad basic growth
    may be enhanced by strengthening agricultural
    competitiveness. Yet, export growth is key to economic

  3. Library Resource
    July, 2013
    Central America, Guatemala

    This regional study encompasses three
    Central American countries: Nicaragua, Guatemala and
    Honduras. The focus of this report is Guatemala. The study
    is motivated by several factors: First is the recognition
    that sub-national regions are becoming increasingly
    heterogeneous, and economically differentiated as part of
    ongoing processes of development and diversification, with
    some areas advancing, and others being left behind. Second

  4. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Central America

    The asset-based approach considers links between households' productive, social, and locational assets; the policy, institutional, and risk context; household behavior as expressed in livelihood strategies; and well-being outcomes. For sustainable poverty reducing growth, it is critical to examine household asset portfolios and understand how assets interact with the context to influence the selection of livelihood strategies, which in turn determine well-being. Policy reforms can change the context and income-generating potential of assets.

  5. Library Resource
    August, 2013
    Nicaragua

    The report argues that Nicaragua's
    best hope for sustained growth, and poverty reduction,
    probably lies with agricultural exports, which have the
    potential to gain from opportunities in world markets.
    Despite the small share of farmland devoted to the
    production of exports (25 percent of harvested area), the
    total trade of agricultural goods (including the value of
    both imports, and exports) accounted for almost eighty five

  6. Library Resource
    July, 2013
    Central America, Nicaragua

    This regional study encompasses three
    Central American countries: Nicaragua, Guatemala, and
    Honduras. The focus of this report is Nicaragua. The
    objective of the study is to understand how broad-based
    economic growth can be stimulated, and sustained in rural
    Central America. The study identifies "drivers" of
    sustainable rural growth and poverty reduction, where
    drivers are defined as the assets and combinations of assets

  7. Library Resource
    July, 2013
    Central America, Honduras

    This regional study encompasses three
    Central American countries: Nicaragua, Guatemala, and
    Honduras. The focus of this report is Honduras. The
    objective of the study is to understand how broad-based
    economic growth can be stimulated and sustained in rural
    Central America. The study identifies "drivers" of
    sustainable rural growth and poverty reduction. Drivers are
    defined as the assets and combinations of assets needed by

  8. Library Resource
    July, 2013
    Central America, Honduras

    This regional study encompasses three
    Central American countries: Nicaragua, Guatemala, and
    Honduras. The focus of this report is Honduras. The
    objective of the study is to understand how broad-based
    economic growth can be stimulated and sustained in rural
    Central America. The study identifies "drivers" of
    sustainable rural growth and poverty reduction. Drivers are
    defined as the assets and combinations of assets needed by

  9. Library Resource
    April, 2014
    Costa Rica

    Costa Rica's Program of Payments
    for Environmental Services (Pago de Servicios Ambientales,
    PSA) provides a unique opportunity to evaluate direct
    payments as a conservation policy tool. This paper reports
    evidence on how much more forest has been conserved in Costa
    Rica as a result of PSA contracts with landowners. Such
    evidence requires estimating a counterfactual outcome: how
    much forest would have been preserved if there had been no

  10. Library Resource
    March, 2013
    Nicaragua

    Globally, an estimated 24 percent of the
    disease burden (healthy life years lost) and an estimated 23
    percent of all deaths (premature mortality) are attributable
    to environmental risks (World Health Organization, or WHO
    2006). The burden of disease is unequally shared, with the
    children and the poor being particularly affected. Among
    children between the ages 0 and 14, the proportion of deaths
    attributable to environmental risks, such as poor water and

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