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poverty and income distribution in Bolivia. The simulation results suggest that FDI inflows enhance economic growth and reduce …
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Using a CGE model (PRCGEM) updated to 2002, the paper explores how WTO membership could affect earnings in 40 industries across 31 regions (and 8 regional blocks) of China during the period 2002–2007. Taking into account labour movement between regions within China, the direct contribution of...
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innovative. It concerns support granted by the Ministry of Development Cooperation of the Netherlands to Bolivia to foster … local ownership of the process in the South. The resulting programme - Strategic Research Programme of Bolivia (PIEB) - was …
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impossible. This is also the situation in Bolivia where there exist urban household surveys and nationally representative DHS … incomes from assets in the DHS, and is able to generate new information on poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …
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illustrate this empirically for Bolivia between 1989 and 1998 and find that growth was pro-poor both in the income and in the non …
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This report analyzes the importance of the hydrocarbon sector in Bolivia. The oil and gas sector currently represents a … Bolivia also plays a strategic geopolitical role in South America as it has the second largest reserves of natural gas in the … country into question as Bolivia is trying to undo twenty years of neo-liberal policies with the adoption of more …
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The urban labor market in Bolivia can be divided into 4 main sectors: 1) the public sector, 2) the formal private … in the formal private sector, there is a strong preference in Bolivia for being informally self-employed. Two thirds of … very active micro-credit industry in Bolivia, but the terms are so unattractive that women try to avoid it if at all …
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This document investigates the effectiveness of foreign aid in Bolivia. When comparing accumulated aid in each sector …
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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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