Liberalizing Trade, and its Impact on Poverty and Inequality in Nicaragua

This is a product of a research project on Distortions to Agricultural Incentives, under the leadership of Kym Anderson of the World Bank’s Development Research Group. The authors are grateful to Leonel Pérez from the Central Bank of Nicaragua for the provision of key statistical information, and to John Cockburn for his valuable comments on a previous version of this paper. This paper will appear in Agricultural Price Distortions, Inequality and Poverty, edited by K. Anderson, J. Cockburn and W. Martin (forthcoming 2010). This is part of a Working Paper series (see www.worldbank.org/agdistortions) that is designed to promptly disseminate the findings of work in progress for comment before they are finalized. The views expressed are the authors ’ alone and not necessarily those of the United Nations or its member state, nor of the World Bank and its Executive Directors, nor the countries they represent, nor of the institutions providing funds for this research project. Pu bl ic Di sc l