Nicaragua

A spotlight on value chains

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Over the last two years, COPLA has investigated a wide range of topics relating to trade, poverty and social exclusion in Latin America. Given the failings of orthodox trade theory to deal with these issues, our researchers have applied cutting-edge research techniques to help them to understand these complex linkages.

October 2007: Launch of COPLA-Nicaragua

Submitted by nicaraguaadmin on Thu, 09/27/2007 - 10:58.
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Nitlapán will be working with ODI in the UK, CIES in Peru, GNTP in Bolivia, and CIPPEC in Argentina on a two year trade and poverty programme which launches today. How can trade and trade-related policies be used to harness the potential of trade for poor people in Nicaragua? How can the negative impacts of trade be minimised? How can dialogue on trade policy and poverty between policymakers and those who represent the poor be improved? These are the questions the programme seeks to answer.

CAFTA from a Nicaraguan Perspective

Submitted by hayley on Tue, 05/27/2008 - 13:03.
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This article explores the effects CAFTA will have on the peoples of Nicaragua. The information from this article was collected through two weeks field research study in Nicaragua. The article highlights the magnitude of the asymmetries in the trade agreement between Central America and U.S and the effects this would have on the Nicaraguan society. The article also looks at agriculture, export-processing zones, environment and labour protection as well as fair trade.

http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/trade/2004/08nicaragua.htm

Gender, Fair-trade and Grassroots Action - the Experience of Nicaraguan Coffee Coops

Submitted by hayley on Wed, 12/05/2007 - 16:40.
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The author finds that as coffee cooperatives have become more successful in Nicaragua, gender roles have begun to change and this in turn is contributing to greater stability and different forms of ec

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/csgr/activitiesnews/workshops/2006ws/g...

Nicaragua Economic Performance Assessment

Submitted by nicaraguaadmin on Wed, 10/03/2007 - 13:13.
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Author:
USAID
Publisher:
USAID

This paper is one of a series of Economic Performance Assessments prepared for the EGAT