poverty. Using rich biophysical and socioeconomic data from Bolivia we find that municipalities with at least 10% of their … that Bolivia's protected areas were associated with poverty reduction are similar to previous studies, our underlying … proliferation of protected areas in Bolivia over the past several decades has prompted interest in understanding their impacts on …

in Bolivia to study the intra-household income allocation process towards children's educational expenditure by ethnicity … indigenous families follows rules closely related to patriarchal family structures (in which women have limited decision …

-municipal governments in Bolivia, and it presents a randomized field experiment designed to improve public service delivery by promoting …

country such as Bolivia. Among developing countries, Bolivia “excels” in having one of the highest levels of domestic violence … across different ethnic groups. Using information from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) for Bolivia, we examine the …. We find that for most of the cases, indigenous women are less responsive to domestic violence than non-indigenous ones …

microfinance type based on the major factors determining micro, small and medium enterprises' access to credit from microfinance … institutions in the era of financial liberalization. The data for the study were gleaned from fourteen microfinance institutions … rationing is not influenced by the microfinance types but by the individual microfinance institutions. …

This paper investigates a relationship between economic governance and the dual objectives of Microfinance Institutions … (MFIs): poverty reduction and financial viability. Using an unbalanced panel of 531 MFIs the important role of other … availability and lesser time in securing property enhances the chances of MFIs in achieving their poverty reduction objective …

Microcredit is an innovative financial tool designed to reduce poverty and fix credit market imperfections. We use … microcredit. Conditional on borrowing from any source, women with present-biased preferences are more likely than others to borrow …

microenterprises, much higher than market interest rates. But returns were found to be much higher among men than among women, and … indeed were not different from zero for women. In this paper, we explore different explanations for the lower returns among … local areas are important. We do find evidence that women invested the grants differently from men. A smaller share of the …