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  "title": "Nicaragua: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, January 3, 2006",
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  "summary": "This Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper for Nicaragua reports that the most pressing demand for the majority of Nicaraguans is employment generation and economic growth.",
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      "heading": "Executive summary and main findings",
      "content": "- The most pressing demand for the majority of Nicaraguans is employment generation and economic growth.\n- The National Development Plan (NDP) prioritizes actions that:\n  - improve the investment climate;\n  - promote productive development while considering the competitive potential of the territories;\n  - position Nicaragua better in the trading world through increased foreign investment.\n- The NDP seeks to establish a more effective regulatory framework that:\n  - promotes competition;\n  - guarantees property rights through a legal framework;\n  - lowers domestic transaction costs."
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      "heading": "Policy priorities and recommendations",
      "content": "- Improve the investment climate to attract increased foreign investment.\n- Promote productive development tailored to territorial competitive potential.\n- Strengthen the regulatory and legal framework to:\n  - foster competition;\n  - guarantee property rights;\n  - reduce domestic transaction costs.\n- Align public investment and public-private partnerships with objectives in education, health, and poverty reduction to support employment generation and growth."
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      "heading": "Thematic coverage (as listed)",
      "content": "- Education\n- Expenditure\n- Health\n- Population and demographics\n- Poverty\n- Public investment and public-private partnerships (PPP)\n- Public investment spending\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- cr06440\n  - cr06440 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - cr06440 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "Published: January 3, 2006",
    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451829259.002",
    "The most pressing demand for the majority of Nicaraguans is employment generation and economic growth.",
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    "The NDP seeks to establish a more effective regulatory framework that:",
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