Seigniorage is the ability of a central bank to capture real resources from the economy through the creation of nominal primary money. This article investigates the conditions of financial vulnerability in foreign currency of the BCB that would limit its essential functions as lender of last...

This study addresses inequality of opportunities in access to education for the school-age population and in labor income for the working-age population in Bolivia. Stochastic dominance criteria are used to evaluate the existence of these inequalities. Subsequently, we approximate them using...

The working paper presents the main results and methodology used for the estimation of SDG indicator 6.6.1, "proportion of watersheds of Municipalities and Indigenous Territories of Bolivia that present that experience major changes in their surface water". The indicator was constructed based on...

Monitoring land degradation processes is crucial for progressing towards the protection, restoration, and sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems. In this study, the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Indicator 15.3.1, "proportion of degraded land over total land area," was estimated for 339...

Within the framework of the global prohibitionist policy, the Bolivian State has stood out for challenging orthodoxy and calling for innovative policies in defense of the coca leaf and the rights of the coca-growing population. In particular, the Cato Agreement that was opened between the...

The economic literature that studies the salary gaps between men and women produced by children. However, there may also be wage gaps between women with children and women without children, which is known as a motherhood wage penalty and whose study for countries such as Bolivia is scarce....

The Bolivian monthly index of economic activity along with ARMA models are used in an attempt to graph and measure the impact of Covid's pandemic on the Bolivian economy. The accumulated difference between the observed and counterfactual values show an overall 12.6% loss of economic activity in...

The Bolivian monthly index of economic activity along with ARMA models are used in an attempt to graph and measure the impact of Covid's pandemic on the Bolivian economy. The accumulated difference between the observed and counterfactual values show an overall 12.6% loss of economic activity in...

Numerous recent studies argue that higher levels of export diversification generate economic growth in developing economies. This study reviews relevant export statistics for a set of South American countries for 1995-2017 and seeks to approximate the fundamental determinants of export...