In many developing countries, the formal financial sector is underdeveloped and majority of the population does not have access to it. This paper analyzes the empirical link between remittances and financial sector development on a microeconomic level. Using a unique household dataset for...

Bolivia's macroeconomic performance in the period 1994 to 1998 is analyzed and compared with the performance in former periods and the performance of other developing countries (grouped according to income, region, and debt status). This allows to assess what has been achieved in Bolivia since...

This paper focusses on the reasons of the poor performance of domestic resource mobilization in Peru. It begins with an analysis of the structure of domestic savings and its changes in the course of economic development (Section II) . After the description of the Peruvian financial sector...

El desempeño macroeconómico de Bolivia durante el período de 1994 a 1998 es analizado y comparado con el desempeño de períodos anteriores y el desempeño de otros países en desarrollo (agrupados de acuerdo al ingreso, región y condición de su deuda). Esto permite evaluar lo alcanzado en...