However, he finds that remittances have a greater impact on reducing the severity as opposed to the level of poverty in Guatemala. For example, the squared poverty gap-which measures the severity of poverty-falls by 21.1 percent when internal remittances are included in household income, and by...
Migration to the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala: Why Place Matters survey with community leaders and key informants in 16 municipios (municipalities) of migrant origin to the Maya Biosphere Reserve (MBR) Peten Guatemala. ... Carr,David - 《Human Organization》...
These are, with ISO codes in parentheses: Argentina (ARG), Belize (BLZ), Bolivia (BOL), Brazil (BRA), Chile (CHL), Colombia (COL), Costa Rica (CRI), Dominican Republic (DOM), Ecuador (ECU), Guatemala (GTM), Honduras (HND), Jamaica (JAM), Mexico (MEX), Nicaragua (NIC), Panama...
while Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua have only 7%, respectively. Similarly, the particular issues and experiences of the aging population differ within and between each country context. Due to government legislation and supportive policies, Chile, for instance, has a large share of their elderly...
This study assesses how these issues affect the welfare of the poor and vulnerable groups in Guatemala in order to provide useful information to guide policymakers. While this work draws mainly from microeconomic data, macroeconomic trends and policies are also discussed to provide a more comprehensive...
Scholarly refinements in energy poverty indicators lay a solid foundation for further analysis. The determinants of energy poverty have been studied from macro or micro perspectives. At the macro level, factors like regional economic development, resource allocations, and technological development played ...
Poverty in Guatemala is high and deep. In 2000, over half of all Guatemalans lived in poverty. About 16 percent lived in extreme poverty. Available evidenc... TW Bank - The World Bank 被引量: 119发表: 2004年 Social influence of larvae on ovarian maturation in primary and secondary reproduc...
According to a Nigeria Poverty statistics, the poverty rate in Nigeria south-west of the country is 19.3 percent. That of the south-south of Nigeria is 25.2 percent. The statistics also revealed that the poverty level in the south-east is about 27.4 percent. In the north-center, the level...
Poverty rates are 25% and above in Guatemala, China, South Africa, and Peru. In short, the range of comparable relative poverty rates from the most comparable source extant varies by a factor of 5. The OECD data in Figure 8.3 provide essentially the same picture but measuring all nations ...
Assessing the Potential for Payments for Watershed Services to Reduce Poverty in Guatemala It has often been assumed that payments for watershed services (PWS) would go mostly to poor land users, thus contributing to poverty reduction, but there ... S Pagiola,W Zhang,A Colom - American Agricul...