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Towards a More Employment-Intensive and Pro-Poor Economic Growth in Bolivia

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  • Luis Carlos Jemio

    (Institute for Advanced Development Studies)

  • Maria del Carmen Choque

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The reform program and growth pattern exhibited by the Bolivian economy in the last decade did not favour employment creation and consequently not an effective reduction of poverty. During the last decade, those sectors where the bulk of employment is concentrated, presented the lowest growth rates of GDP, labour productivity and real incomes. The present paper analyzes in detail the two sectors where the bulk of employment and poverty is concentrated (agriculture and the urban informal sector) in order to determine the critical constraints to improvements in productivity, employment generation, and reductions in poverty.

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  • Luis Carlos Jemio & Maria del Carmen Choque, 2006. "Towards a More Employment-Intensive and Pro-Poor Economic Growth in Bolivia," Development Research Working Paper Series 18/2006, Institute for Advanced Development Studies.
    • Handle: RePEc:adv:wpaper:200618
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    1. Luis Carlos Jemio & Maria del Carmen Choque, 2003. "Employment-Poverty Linkages and Policies: The Case of Bolivia," Development Research Working Paper Series 05/2003, Institute for Advanced Development Studies.
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    1. Marta Moratti, 2010. "Consumption Poverty and Pro-Poor Growth in Bolivia," Working Paper Series 1310, Department of Economics, University of Sussex Business School.

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    Keywords

    Employment; Poverty; Growth; Bolivia;
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    JEL classification:

    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • O54 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Latin America; Caribbean
    • O17 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements

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