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Bolivia. A second important factor is the age of the head of household. Young families are considerably more vulnerable than …
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a los ingresos del hogar. Esto todavía no es común en Bolivia, ya que muchas mujeres se ocupan exclusivamente de las …
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This study focuses on analysing the linkages between output growth, employment and poverty, at both the macro and micro levels. At the macro level, the linkage between poverty and output growth is conceptualised in terms of the average productivity of the employed work force, which in turn gets...
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This paper studies the changes in inequality and poverty in the period 1999-2005 in Bolivia through the analysis of the … dis-tribution in this period in Bolivia. Regarding the poverty incidence, the observed variation was a reduction by 3 …
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The reform program and growth pattern exhibited by the Bolivian economy in the last decade did not favour employment creation and consequently not an effective reduction of poverty. During the last decade, those sectors where the bulk of employment is concentrated, presented the lowest growth...
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de Bolivia, los cambios no están únicamente centrados en ámbito económico sino está buscando cambios en la Constitución …
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This paper evaluates the degree of social mobility in Bolivia, both by comparing to other Latin American countries, and … by comparing social mobility at different points in time. While Bolivia had one of the lowest levels of social mobility …. This is very good news, as it suggests that Bolivia has finally escaped the low mobility – low growth equilibrium where it …
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-related external flows in the case of Bolivia. Riding on high international prices for its major exports, and on fiscal … expansion, remittances and debt forgiveness, Bolivia has experienced solid economic performance in the past few years. This … a period of radical change in Bolivia’s dependence on MDG8-related external flows. The composition of external finance …
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Productivity differences can explain differences in economic growth across countries.It has been demonstrated that the presence of a foreign-owned multinational enterprise (MNE) in a developing country is one of the most important methods through which technology transfer occurs. This presence...
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The paper uses data from 5,507 municipalities in Brazil to estimate the relationships between climate and income as well as climate and health, and then uses the estimated relationships to gauge the effects of past and future climate change on income levels and life expectancy in each of these...
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