The recent global increases in fuel prices threaten the gains in poverty reduction that countries like Paraguay have … analyzes the potential effects of fuel prices on poverty and inequality in Paraguay. Using microsimulation methods and based on … the Commitment to Equity framework, it estimates the impact of higher fuel prices on welfare, poverty, and inequality …

of fiscal policy interventions on inequality and poverty. Specifically, we analyze the distributional incidence of direct … to poverty reduction and are almost neutral in their distributive impact. The results contribute to the understanding of …

One of the central concerns in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has been the reduction of poverty and inequality …

, including standard linear regression, quantile regression, or poverty and inequality estimation. The paper presents two …

A decline in poverty generally masks regional disparities that are due to varying efficiency among states. Using a … reduce poverty and its determinants in Bolivia. Our findings reveal that states differ in terms of efficiency, with some … recalibration. We find that when the macroeconomic conditions in Bolivia allow for a 10 percent reduction in the poverty rate …

This paper examines the impact of severe wildfire events on Bolivia's poverty and labor market outcomes. We use a panel … Interactive Fixed Effects Counterfactual Estimator, we estimate the causal effects of severe wildfire events on poverty, household … per-capita income, and the agricultural sector. We find a significant short-term increase in poverty explained by a …

poverty. Using rich biophysical and socioeconomic data from Bolivia we find that municipalities with at least 10% of their … area occupied by a protected area established between 1992 and 2000 exhibited differentially greater levels of poverty … that Bolivia's protected areas were associated with poverty reduction are similar to previous studies, our underlying …