This paper investigates the concentration of access to safe water across income levels in Bolivia. In particular, it focuses on how privatisation has changed coverage, affordability and the concentration of access to water on the part of the poor. We compare the performance of cities in which...

Populist experiments are recurrent in Latin America. One of the most conspicuous cases is that of Bolivia in the 21th century under the government of Evo Morales and his Movement to Socialism (MAS). A major distinctive feature of this populism is the incorporation of the ethnic and linguistic...

This paper explores the relation between activities in the Bolivian economy as suppliers and demanders of intermediate inputs, this whit the purpose to determine which activities have great impact on the rest of the economy and which ones are less integrated. For this, Rasmussen indexes are...

The study of the impact of public investment on poverty is currently of particular importance due to, among other factors, the commitments that several countries have acquired in the framework of the Millennium Development Goals and the current political situation which gives a more prominent...

The present document analyzes the energy substitution elasticities in the short and long term in Bolivia. The inputs accounted are electricity, hydrocarbons and biomass. In order to measure and identify the direction of the elasticities we use a Transcendental Logarithmic Production Function,...