This created the fiscal space to allow Nicaragua to increase annual spending on poverty reduction programs to almost 13 percent of GDP in 2011. Despite debt relief efforts, improved macroeconomic ...

Living in poverty – many girls forced to become wives and mothers well before they’re ready – Nicaragua’s children need your help. 1 child in 56 dies before their 5th birthday, 3 times the U.S. rate ...

Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) are prepared by member countries in broad consultation with stakeholders and development partners, including the staffs of the World Bank and the IMF. Updated ...

Contributing factors included the armed conflicts in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua (which also ... and the incidence of poverty decreased. Average annual regional real GDP growth rose to ...