For most of the last two decades, Ghana’s economy has been on a high growth path, which has been accompanied by significant reduction in poverty. Despite this progress, large macroeconomic imbalances threaten...
Botswana is a small, landlocked, upper-middle-income country with a gross domestic product (GDP) of United States (U.S.) 17.3 billion dollars in 2011. Despite high levels of economic growth over the past...
This review of public expenditures on Social Protection (SP) in Nicaragua is based on the analytical framework of Social Risk Management (SRM) developed by the World Bank. The concept of managing social...
This paper provides a Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) of the effects of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) on the Salvadoran population. It presents estimates the first-order welfare...
The study explores the factors that affected the ability of the poor to participate in economic growth and to benefit from it, and seeks to identify the policies that will make growth in El Salvador more...
This paper is concerned with a particular issue which arises during the implementation of an anti-inflation-cum-trade-liberalization program, i.e., the elimination of "water in external tariffs" or tariff...