Bajo cualquier medición la tasa de crecimiento de Bolivia ha sido muy baja. Con ese telón de fondo se examina la contribución del sector financiero a la tasa de crecimiento. ¿Cuáles son las características del sector financiero que podrían apoyar al crecimiento así como cuáles son los...

The supercycle of high commodity prices has had profound impacts on the Bolivian economy. We have investigated the relations of commodity prices with the main indicators of macroeconomic performance. We have found significant ties in our statistical analysis. An important question that we...

For dozens of developing countries, the financial upheavals of the 1980s have set back economic development by a decade or more. Poverty in those countries has intensified as they struggle under the burden of an enormous external debt. In 1988, more than six years after the onset of the crisis,...