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 …

Bolivia faces high levels of persistent poverty and inequality. In 2002, 65 percent of the population was living in … poverty and, of that, nearly 40 percent in extreme poverty. There was a decline in poverty in the mid-1990s, however, the rate … today remains close to the level of the early 1990s. In addition, income distribution in Bolivia is among the most unequal …

The objective of this Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD) is to identify the priority constraints Bolivia faces in … sustaining its gains on reducing poverty and enhancing shared prosperity over the next years. It will analyze the dynamics behind … consolidating this progress. The SCD begins, in Chapter two, with a presentation of four characteristics that make Bolivia special …

of poverty has neglected the non-income dimensions. After an examination of prominent views on the linkages between … economic growth, inequality, and poverty reduction this paper discusses the proper definition and measurement of pro …-poor growth. Bolivia serves as a case study to illustrate the usefulness of applying the analytical toolbox for pro-poor growth to …

We apply a standard tax and benefit incidence analysis to estimate the impact on inequality and poverty of direct taxes …) especially when compared with that found in Western Europe (15 percentage points on average). What prevents Argentina, Bolivia …. The impact of transfers on inequality and poverty reduction could be higher if spending on direct cash transfers that are …

How much redistribution and poverty reduction is being accomplished in Latin America through social spending, subsidies …, and taxes? Standard fiscal incidence analyses applied to Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay using a … comparable methodology yields the following results. Direct taxes and cash transfers reduce inequality and poverty by nontrivial …