During the 2000s Bolivia experienced moderate economic growth and improved all labour market indicators. The economy … suffered a slowdown as a consequence of the international crisis of 2008, but Bolivia sustained positive growth rates during … poverty and inequality indicators decreased substantially between 2000 and 2012. The only negative impact of the international …

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 …

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 …

consequences and poverty impact. The reorientation of development policy from structural adjustment to poverty reduction as the … central objective thus called for new tools to examine distributional change. This book analyzes the poverty and … Colombia and Brazil, and the gas boom in Bolivia. It uses an innovative approach that combines computable general equilibrium …