achieved during the past seven years in reducing the poverty levels. We study using a CGE-microsimulation model the effects of …

incomes from assets in the DHS, and is able to generate new information on poverty and inequality in Bolivia. … (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … impossible. This is also the situation in Bolivia where there exist urban household surveys and nationally representative DHS …

dis-tribution in this period in Bolivia. Regarding the poverty incidence, the observed variation was a reduction by 3 …This paper studies the changes in inequality and poverty in the period 1999-2005 in Bolivia through the analysis of the … changes in the labour market. A decomposition method based on micro-simulation techniques was applied. The decomposition works …

poverty and inequality in Bolivia. … Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … over a longer time period impossible. This is also the situation in Bolivia where there exist urban household surveys and …

In this paper, a real-financial CGE model is employed for Bolivia to simulate the macroeconomic and distributional … by the shock. Financial de-dollarization tends to be contractionary in Bolivia but different degrees of financial … reduces the poverty effect of the external shock. Even the significant short-run macroeconomic expansion that occurs without …

In this paper, a real-financial CGE model is employed for Bolivia to simulate the macroeconomic and distributional … by the shock. Financial de-dollarization tends to be contractionary in Bolivia but different degrees of financial … reduces the poverty effect of the external shock. Even the significant short-run macroeconomic expansion that occurs without …

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 … self-employment. At the micro level of a household, the same linkage between poverty and employment operates through the …

creation and consequently not an effective reduction of poverty. During the last decade, those sectors where the bulk of … analyzes in detail the two sectors where the bulk of employment and poverty is concentrated (agriculture and the urban informal … in poverty. …

Bolivia’s medium-term development prospects, leading to marked increases in both urban and rural poverty. If the reform …This paper analyzes how major external shocks and policy reforms affect Bolivia’s ability to achieve pro-poor growth … external shocks. The poverty increase caused by the shocks would be more than offset for urban households, but reinforced for …

This paper provides evidence on the incidence of poverty among the elderly in Latin America and the Caribbean, based on … reduction of old-age poverty. …