## Nicaragua: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper

_IMF Staff Country Reports, May 6, 2010_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: May 6, 2010
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781455203673.002

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### Summary findings
- Main obstacles to poverty reduction are related to culture, historical, and structural factors, as well as weak public policy.
- Specific structural weaknesses identified:
  - Lack of proper physical infrastructure.
  - Weaknesses in the energy matrix.
  - Flaws in the health, education, and potable water systems.
  - Precarious presence of state institutions in the territory.
- Main areas of opportunity for economic growth and poverty reduction:
  - Agriculture.
  - Natural resources.

### Subject areas and keywords
- Subject: Education, Expenditure, Health, Labor, Population and demographics, Poverty, Public investment spending
- Keywords: Caribbean, Central America, central government, CR, economic crisis, energy policy, financial crisis, Global, human right, international community, ISCR, national budget, natural resources, Public investment spending, social policy, value chain

### Implicit policy implications (derived from source findings)
- Prioritize investment in physical infrastructure to reduce territorial gaps in service provision.
- Strengthen the energy matrix to support economic activity and reduce constraints on growth.
- Reform and invest in health, education, and potable water systems to address human-capital deficits contributing to poverty persistence.
- Enhance state institutional presence across the territory to improve public policy implementation and service delivery.
- Leverage agriculture and natural-resource potential as focal sectors for growth-oriented poverty reduction strategies.

*Source: Nicaragua: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper, IMF Staff Country Reports 2010, Issue 108.*

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