This paper discusses the implementation of the Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) initiative in Bolivia. It has been agreed in principle that the debt relief funds should be channeled to municipal governments in order to strengthen the ongoing decentralization process and to secure maximum...

El documento tiene el objetivo de evaluar los flujos comerciales de la economía boliviana en el período 1992-2000. Para tal efecto, fue estimada la llamada ecuación de gravitación, con esta metodología es posible comparar el peso de la influencia de los determinantes del comercio, como la...

El trabajo tiene como objetivo determinar los factores que explican los niveles de ineficiencia técnica del sector bancario boliviano en el período post-liberalización financiera. Los resultados obtenidos mostraron que los factores que explicarían los niveles de ineficiencia son...

El documento proporciona una descripción de la vulnerabilidad de la economía boliviana por la exportación de productos primarios: minerales e hidrocarburos. Los cambios estructurales introducidos en la economía boliviana desde 1985 han disminuido la participación del Estado en la...

Conventional banking practices do not easily accommodate the financial needs of poor persons. Group-lending, on the other hand, has found several advantages in the context of poor borrowers with no collateral to offer. An important advantage is that the bank’s losses due to unsuccessful...

There is a heated debate on the effects of Foreign Direct Investment on development. Proponents argue that FDI is good for development, and hence the rapid expansion of FDI in Latin America in the past decade and a half is manna from heaven. In some cases, it is indeed difficult to imagine...

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 in the region in 1997, the last 10 years have seen...

During the last five years, Bolivia received more than $US 3,000 million in foreign aid and more than $US 3,500 million in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). The country also received debt relief with a net present value of $US 1,300 million and implemented a National Poverty Reduction Strategy....

Poverty in Bolivia continues to be among the highest in Latin America despite decades of concerted national and international efforts to reduce it. Bolivia has meticulously followed the recommendations of the Washington consensus at the same time as external aid has been generous and foreign...

El objetivo del presente documento es identificar las diferencias salariales atribuibles a problemas de discriminación en el sistema educativo y en el mercado laboral. El estudio analiza la segregación pre-mercado (que se da cuando un grupo de la población no tiene acceso a la adquisición de...