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Macroeconomic Policy and Pro-Poor Growth in Bolivia

Klasen, Stephan - Ibero-Amerika Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (IAI), … - 2006

In this paper, we analyze the potential and limitations of macroeconomic policy to affect propoor growth in Bolivia … Bolivia, a highly dualistic small open economy that undertook significant macroeconomic and structural reforms in the 1990s …

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Measuring Pro-Poor Progress towards the Non-Income Millennium Development Goals

Grosse, Melanie; Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan - Ibero-Amerika Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (IAI), … - 2006

education). We empirically illustrate the approach for Bolivia and show that it allows a much more detailed assessment of …

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Macroeconomic and Distributional Effects of Devaluation in a Dollarized Economy: A CGE Analysis for Bolivia

Schweickert, Rainer; Thiele, Rainer; Wiebelt, Manfred - Ibero-Amerika Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (IAI), … - 2005

In this paper, a real-financial CGE model is employed for Bolivia to simulate the macroeconomic and distributional … by the shock. Financial de-dollarization tends to be contractionary in Bolivia but different degrees of financial …

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Operationalizing Pro-Poor Growth - Country Case Study: Bolivia

Klasen, Stephan; Grosse, Melanie; Thiele, Rainer; Lay, Jann - Ibero-Amerika Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (IAI), … - 2004

This case study examines to what extent Bolivia has been able to achieve pro-poor growth, what the mechanisms of …

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Targeting Performance and Poverty Effects of Proxy Means-Tested Transfers: Tade-offs and Challenges

Klasen, Stephan; Lange, Simon - Ibero-Amerika Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (IAI), … - 2015

In the absence of reliable and exhaustive income data, Proxy Means Tests (PMTs) are frequently employed as a cost-eective way to identify income-poor beneciaries of targeted anti-poverty programs. However, their usefulness depends on whether proxies accurately identify the income poor. Based on...

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