This paper investigates social mobility in Bolivia and discusses its implications for poverty reduction and long …-run growth. Regressions based on household survey data show that social mobility is very low in Bolivia, even by Latin American … rural-urban migration. As a consequence, poverty tends to be fairly persistent over time. Moreover, low social mobility …

This paper investigates social mobility in Bolivia and discusses its implications for poverty reduction and long …-run growth. Regressions based on household survey data show that social mobility is very low in Bolivia, even by Latin American … rural-urban migration. As a consequence, poverty tends to be fairly persistent over time. Moreover, low social mobility …