Nicaragua and its poverty
If one asks a Nicaraguan what is the most serious problem in the country, let us not doubt for a second that they will answer us that it is poverty Political and social leaders are looking for a way out of this complex problem with social programs that in most cases are unsuccessful.
According to statistics from World Data Book 48 percent of the population Nicaraguan lives in the extreme poberty on less than $ 1 a day, another 28 percent live in relative poverty on less than $ 2 a day. And this is the reflection that the population is not adequately employed. Almost 5 percent are unemployed and more than 46 percent are underemployed.
It is currently the second poorest country in Latin America and one of the 15 countries on the planet that has a high level of food insecurity. The economy of Nicaragua It has been damaged by mismanagement in the Government and by the continuous natural disasters that plague it. For specialists Nicaragua it must begin to modernize the productive apparatus to lift its population out of the poverty in which it finds itself.