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    COVID-19 and the state: Nicaragua case study
    Mateo C. Jarquín - UNU-WIDER , 2022 - Helsinki, Finland
    Unlike Latin American peers, and contrary to World Health Organization recommendations, Nicaragua eschewed lockdowns and other common strategies to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. Analysts have since demonstrated how Nicaraguan authorities dramatically under-reported the number of deaths and...
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    COVID-19 in Central America: effects of firm resilience and policy responses on employment
    Beatriz Calzada Olvera, Mario Gonzalez-Sauri, Federico Louvin, David-Alexander Harings Moya - UNU-WIDER , 2021 - Helsinki, Finland
    With data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey, this paper examines how firm-level resilience capabilities interact with government support in the reduction of lay-offs among formal firms in Central America. We estimate two latent variables to approximate resilience-related capabilities before...
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    Heterogeneous informality in Costa Rica and Nicaragua
    Enrique Alaniz, T.H. Gindling, Catherine Mata, Diego Rojas - UNU-WIDER , 2021 - Helsinki, Finland
    Informal work is often considered a place of employment for marginalized and vulnerable workers who have been rationed out of preferred formal work. However, informality can also be seen as a dynamic sector that budding entrepreneurs and those looking for flexible working conditions enter...
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    Transforming informal work and livelihoods in Costa Rica and Nicaragua
    Enrique Alaniz, T.H. Gindling, Catherine Mata, Diego Rojas - UNU-WIDER , 2020 - Helsinki, Finland
    We divide workers into six work statuses: formal self-employed, upper-tier informal self-employed, lower-tier informal self-employed, formal wage-employed, upper-tier informal wage-employed, and lower-tier informal wage-employed. In both Costa Rica and Nicaragua, earnings are highest for formal work...
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    Self-employment and labour market dynamics of men and women in El Salvador and Nicaragua
    Enrique Alaniz, Alma Espino, T.H. Gindling - UNU-WIDER , 2019 - Helsinki, Finland
    We study the labour market dynamics of men and women in El Salvador and Nicaragua, focusing on the factors that help men and women move into an advantageous labour market state from an unfavourable state. We consider ‘advantageous’ states to be formal salaried employees and self-employed workers...
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    Impact Assessment of the Facilitadores Judiciales Programme in Nicaragua
    Martin Gramatikov, Maurits Barendrecht, Margot Kokke, Robert Porter, Morly Frishman, Andrea Morales - Routledge , 2017
    From the book: Development Assistance for Peacebuilding
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    Development Assistance for Peacebuilding
    Rachel M. Gisselquist - Routledge , 2017
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read at www.tandfebooks.com and offered as a free PDF download from Taylor & Francis Group and selected open access locations. Development assistance to fragile states and conflict-affected areas can...
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    Development assistance for peacebuilding
    Rachel M. Gisselquist - UNU-WIDER , 2017 - Helsinki, Finland
    Development assistance to fragile states and conflict-affected areas is a core component of peacebuilding. It includes support for the restoration of core government functions, delivery of basic services, the rule of law, and economic revitalization. Yet, while aid has been among the largest...
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    Impact Assessment of the Facilitadores Judiciales Programme in Nicaragua
    Martin Gramatikov, Maurits Barendrecht, Margot Kokke, Robert Porter, Morly Frishman, Andrea Morales - International Peacekeeping , 2015 - London, United Kingdom
    Part of Journal Special Issue Development Assistance for Peacebuilding
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    Aid Distribution and Cooperation in Unequal Communities
    Ben D’Exelle, Marrit van den Berg - Review of Income and Wealth , 2014
    Part of Journal Special Issue Poverty, Development, and Behavioral Economics
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    Getting into a State?
    Roger Williamson - UNU-WIDER , 2013 - Helsinki, Finland
    30 October 2013 Roger Williamson The UNU-WIDER meeting held last week in New York on the topic of fragility and aid argued forcefully that you cannot ‘fix’ failed states as you would a broken window. Drawing on over 80 papers from the governance and fragility theme of the ReCom—Research and...
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    Impact Assessment of the Facilitadores Judiciales Programme in Nicaragua
    Maurits Barendrecht, Margot Kokke, Martin Gramatikov, Robert Porter, Morly Frishman, Andrea Morales - UNU-WIDER , 2013 - Helsinki, Finland
    Facilitadores Judiciales is a programme run by the Organization of the American States and the Nicaraguan judiciary. The main objective of the programme is to improve access to justice for the disadvantaged people in Nicaragua. From 1998 to 2010 the programme was implemented in almost all rural and...
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    Aid Distribution and Co-operation in Unequal Communities
    Ben D’Exelle, Marrit van den Berg - UNU-WIDER , 2012 - Helsinki, Finland
    We study the influence of economic inequality on co-operation and aid distribution in community-based development schemes. For this, we organized a field experiment in which community members contributed to a collective effort to attract aid. We find that devolving aid distribution to community...
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    Seasonal Migration and Early Childhood Development
    Karen Macours, Renos Vakis - World Development , 2010
    Part of Journal Special Issue Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality in Latin America
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    Seasonal Migration and Early Childhood Development
    Karen Macours, Renos Vakis - UNU-WIDER , 2008 - Helsinki, Finland
    This paper provides unique evidence of the positive consequences of seasonal migration for investments in early childhood development. We analyse migration in a poor shock-prone border region in rural Nicaragua where it offers one of the main household income diversification and risk coping...
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    Global Integration and Growth in Honduras and Nicaragua
    Manuel R. Agosin - , 2002
    From the book: Globalization, Marginalization and Development
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