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      SOUTHMOD country report Bolivia - BOLMOD v2.0
      Cristina Arancibia, David Macas - UNU-WIDER , 2023 - Helsinki, Finland
      This report documents BOLMOD, the SOUTHMOD micrososimulation model developed for Bolivia. It describes the different tax–benefit policies in place, how the microsimulation model takes advantage of these different provisions, and the database on which the model runs. It concludes with a validation of...
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      The state and the ‘legalization’ of illicit financial flows
      – Trading gold in Bolivia
      Fritz Brugger, Joschka Proksik, Felicitas Fischer - UNU-WIDER , 2022 - Helsinki, Finland
      Most research on illicit financial flows (IFFs) has focused on illicit outflows from developing countries and the role of non-state actors in generating IFFs. Less attention has been paid to processes and interfaces through which IFFs enter formal value chains—in effect being ‘legalized’ before...
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      Informality and pension reforms in Bolivia
      – The case of Renta Dignidad
      Carla Canelas, Miguel Niño-Zarazúa - Journal of Development Studies , 2022
      Part of Journal Special Issue What sustains informality
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      Governance and COVID-19 in Bolivia
      Calla Hummel, Ximena Velasco Guachalla, Jami Nelson-Nuñez, Carew Boulding - UNU-WIDER , 2022 - Helsinki, Finland
      On 10 March 2020, the Bolivian government identified two COVID-19 cases in Bolivians returning from Italy. The national government responded swiftly and sent the country into one of the world’s strictest lockdowns on 22 March 2020. However, low state capacity and low government legitimacy snarled up...
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      Informality and pension reforms in Bolivia
      – The case of Renta Dignida
      Carla Canelas, Miguel Niño-Zarazúa - UNU-WIDER , 2021 - Helsinki, Finland
      How social protection programmes affect work choices is a question that has been at the centre of labour economics research for decades. More recently, a scant literature has focused on the effects of social protection on work choices and informal employment in the context of low- and middle-income...
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      Schooling and Labor Market Impacts of Bolivia's Bono Juancito Pinto Program
      Carla Canelas, Miguel Niño-Zarazúa - Population and Development Review , 2019
      Part of Journal Special Issue Welfare and distributive effects of social assistance in the Global South
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      Schooling and labour market impacts of Bolivia’s Bono Juancito Pinto
      Carla Canelas, Miguel Niño-Zarazúa - UNU-WIDER , 2018 - Helsinki, Finland
      In 2006, the Bolivian government introduced a large-scale cash transfer programme, Bono Juancito Pinto (BJP). Exploiting the exogenous variation of the programme expansion, this paper examines the impact of BJP on schooling and child labour. The analysis suggests that the transfer increases the...
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      A geospatial evaluation of timely access to surgical care in seven countries
      Lisa M Knowlton, Paulin Banguti, Smita Chackungal, Traychit Chanthasiri, Tiffany E Chao, Bernice Dahn, Milliard Derbew, Debashish Dhar, Micaela M Esquivel, Faye Evans, Simon Hendel, Drake G LeBrun, Michelle Notrica, Iracema Saavedra-Pozo, Ross Shockley, Tarsicio Uribe-Leitz, Boualy Vannavong, Kelly A McQueen, David A Spain, Thomas G Weiser - Bulletin of the World Health Organization , 2017 - Geneva, Switzerland
      Part of Journal Special Issue Measuring quality of care
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      A geospatial evaluation of timely access to surgical care in seven countries
      Lisa M. Knowlton, Paulin Banguti, Smita Chackungal, Traychit Chanthasiri, Tiffany E. Chao, Bernice Dahn, Milliard Derbew, Debashish Dhar, Micaela M. Esquivel, Faye Evans, Simon Hendel, Drake G. LeBrun, Michelle Notrica, Iracema Saavedra-Pozo, Ross Shockley, Tarsicio Uribe-Leitz, Boualy Vannavong, Kelly A. McQueen, David A. Spain, Thomas G. Weiser - UNU-WIDER , 2017 - Helsinki, Finland
      Methods: In 2010–2014, we used a situational analysis tool to collect data at district and regional hospitals in Bangladesh (n = 14), the Plurinational State of Bolivia (n = 18), Ethiopia (n = 19), Guatemala (n = 20), the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (n = 12), Liberia (n = 12) and Rwanda (n = 25...
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      Bolivia
      Guillermo Cruces, Gary S. Fields, David Jaume, Mariana Viollaz - Oxford University Press , 2017
      From the book: Growth, Employment, and Poverty in Latin America
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      Growth, Employment, and Poverty in Latin America
      Guillermo Cruces, Gary S. Fields, David Jaume, Mariana Viollaz - Oxford University Press , 2017
      This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. This book examines the links between economic growth, changing employment...
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      Cash transfers in Latin America
      – Effects on poverty and redistribution
      Verónica Amarante, Martin Brun - UNU-WIDER , 2016 - Helsinki, Finland
      In this paper, we present comparative evidence for eight Latin American countries regarding design and effects of cash transfers (CTs). On the basis of household survey data, we analyse their coverage, importance in household income, and effects on poverty reduction and income redistribution.We also...
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      The political economy of ‘linked’ progressive taxation in Africa and Latin America
      Paul Mosley, Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai - UNU-WIDER , 2016 - Helsinki, Finland
      One key element in the reduction of poverty and (in Latin America) inequality has been the achievement of greater fiscal equity; we analyse one key part of this process, which is the earmarking of portions of tax revenue to be spent on progressive public expenditures such as social protection...
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      The growth-employment-poverty nexus in Latin America in the 2000s
      – Bolivia country study
      Guillermo Cruces, Gary S. Fields, David Jaume, Mariana Viollaz - UNU-WIDER , 2015 - Helsinki, Finland
      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 that episode. The unemployment rate fell between 2000 and...
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      Cocaine Cities
      – Exploring the Relationship between Urban Processes and the Drug Trade in South America
      Ignacio A. Navarro - , 2012
      From the book: Latin American Urban Development into the 21st Century
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      The Vecino as Citizen
      – Neighbourhood Organizations in El Alto and the Transformation of Bolivian Citizenship
      Helene Risør - , 2012
      From the book: Latin American Urban Development into the 21st Century
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