, and taxes? Standard fiscal incidence analyses applied to Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay using a … amounts in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay but less so in Bolivia, Mexico, and Peru. While direct taxes are progressive, the … absolute terms, except in Bolivia where programs are not targeted to the poor. In Bolivia and Brazil, indirect taxes more than …

Bolivia made substantial progress in reducing poverty and inequality during the commodity boom, and despite the adverse …

estimator is proposed to measure these regional (spatial) treatment effects. The regional effects of microfinance in Bolivia … Bolivia, thus suggesting that microfinance can be used to promote socio-economic development at the regional level …

Bolivia faces high levels of persistent poverty and inequality. In 2002, 65 percent of the population was living in … today remains close to the level of the early 1990s. In addition, income distribution in Bolivia is among the most unequal …

Bolivia made substantial progress in reducing poverty and inequality during the commodity boom, and despite the adverse …

), especially when compared with that found in Western Europe (15 percentage points on average). What prevents Argentina, Bolivia …