We’re at an inflection point and should be concerned
2015 Noviembre Nicaragua
I first want to begin by offering my analysis of Nicaragua’s poverty picture because we finally have relatively fresh data. On October 6 the government...
The Grand Canal and the “grand” job expectations
2015 Febrero Nicaragua
The announcement about the construction of the interoceanic canal generated huge expectations about the jobs this megaproject would create. They talked...
Questions about the canal’s economic “viability”
2014 Octubre Nicaragua
I’m increasingly surprised by the tremendous ease with which concepts about the interoceanic canal’s economic impact are being bandied about in a debate...
The canal and the illusion of development
2013 Agosto Nicaragua
Ongoing dynamic change in the productive and employment structures is crucial to a country’s development. In this process, the productive factors, including...
An Urgent Call to Use the Demographic Dividend
2009 Septiembre Nicaragua
On August 8, the Civil Coordinator, a Nicaraguan civil society umbrella organization made up of some 600 nongovernmental organizations, networks and...
Brief Notes on Foreign Cooperation At This Time of Uncertainty
2008 Diciembre Nicaragua
* According to the projections of the Medium-term
Budget Framework attached to the 2008 Budget bill, the foreign cooperation resources to be disbursed...
Sixteen Years Lost in Five Agreements with the IMF
2008 Abril Nicaragua
In September 1991, Nicaragua signed an 18-month “stand-by” program with the IMF in its first agreement with that institution after the FSLN’s 1990 electoral...
Indignant (and Substantiated) Clues To the CENI Fraud and Renegotiation
2008 Marzo Nicaragua
The Ortega government is accusing Liberal opposition leader Eduardo Montealegre of responsibility for the whole fraud related to the Central Bank’s Negotiable...
Gambling Away Our Future with Decisions We’re Making Today
2007 Noviembre Nicaragua
A little over a month ago macro-economy specialists were expressing their satisfaction in the media: we had finally come to an agreement with the International...
We Can’t Go on Paying Our Teachers Miserable Salaries
2007 Mayo Nicaragua
The day after the new government took office, Education Minister Miguel de Castilla declared that he had abolished the school autonomy system set up...
What Must We Defend in Negotiations with the IMF?
2007 Febrero Nicaragua
Nicaragua’s three-year program with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the framework of the agreement on Financial Service for Poverty Reduction...
The Energy Crisis Explained
2005 Junio Nicaragua
According to data of the United Nations’ Economic Commission on Latin America (ECLA), updated in 2003, 72% of Nicaragua’s electrical energy capacity...
“We Must All Demand the Restructuring of the Domestic Debt”
2005 Marzo Nicaragua
When we in the Civil Coordinator began to research and reflect on the national budget, some found such macroeconomic issues too complicated and...
National Budged
1991 Marzo Nicaragua
This table shows the Presidency's proposed 1991 budget compared to 1990 spending and to the 1991 budget approved in December by the National Assembly.
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Esquipulas in Nicaragua Words Become Deeds
1987 Octubre Nicaragua
US pacifist Brian Willson, a Vietnam War veteran, sat down in the path of the train that transports US arms for the contras and the Salvadoran...
The Counterrevolutionaries: What kind of Freedom Fighters Are They?
1983 Noviembre Nicaragua
THE PEOPLES’S RESPONSE IN BOCANA DE PAIWAS. Life overcame death in Bocana de Paiwas. “People feel more human now. After all that has happened, I would...