A decline in poverty generally masks regional disparities that are due to varying efficiency among states. Using a … reduce poverty and its determinants in Bolivia. Our findings reveal that states differ in terms of efficiency, with some … recalibration. We find that when the macroeconomic conditions in Bolivia allow for a 10 percent reduction in the poverty rate …

Conditions and Household Budgets Survey and following the Commitment to Equity (CEQ) analysis framework, we estimate the effects … of fiscal policy interventions on inequality and poverty. Specifically, we analyze the distributional incidence of direct … on the VAT side and progressive on the personal income tax side. Furthermore, direct transfers make a modest contribution …

The recent global increases in fuel prices threaten the gains in poverty reduction that countries like Paraguay have … analyzes the potential effects of fuel prices on poverty and inequality in Paraguay. Using microsimulation methods and based on … the Commitment to Equity framework, it estimates the impact of higher fuel prices on welfare, poverty, and inequality …

Interactive Fixed Effects Counterfactual Estimator, we estimate the causal effects of severe wildfire events on poverty, household … per-capita income, and the agricultural sector. We find a significant short-term increase in poverty explained by a … temporary decline in household per capita and, specifically, agricultural labor income. …

exhibit the most unequal distribution of income among these countries, our results suggest otherwise. If one assumes … educational attainment to form part of one's own responsibility the Colombian income distribution appears more equal than Bolivia … Ecuador, and a mere 2.4 percent in Bolivia. Our findings show that the sources of income inequality can differ substantially …

poverty. Using rich biophysical and socioeconomic data from Bolivia we find that municipalities with at least 10% of their … area occupied by a protected area established between 1992 and 2000 exhibited differentially greater levels of poverty … that Bolivia's protected areas were associated with poverty reduction are similar to previous studies, our underlying …