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Mientras Bolivia se encuentra cerca de alcanzar la meta del milenio en lo que se refiere a educación básica universal, la calidad de la educación que reciben los niños en las escuelas públicas es muy baja. Este hecho es delicado en relación a los factores que más nos preocupan:...
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This paper investigates social mobility in Bolivia and discusses its implications for poverty reduction and long-run growth. Regressions based on household survey data show that social mobility is very low in Bolivia, even by Latin American standards. This is mainly caused by an inadequate...
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This paper evaluates the degree of social mobility in Bolivia, both by comparing to other Latin American countries, and by comparing social mobility at different points in time. While Bolivia had one of the lowest levels of social mobility in the region in 1997, the last 10 years have seen...
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The paper uses data from 5,507 municipalities in Brazil to estimate the relationships between climate and income as well as climate and health, and then uses the estimated relationships to gauge the effects of past and future climate change on income levels and life expectancy in each of these...
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This paper uses municipality level data to estimate the general relationships between climate, income and child mortality in Mexico. Climate was found to play only a very minor role in explaining the large differences in income levels and child mortality rates observed in Mexico. This implies...
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El presente Estudio de Caso analiza el potencial turístico existente en la región del Salar de Uyuni, el mismo que permitiría una mejora en la calidad de vida de sus pobladores así como un incremento sustancial en sus ingresos, si fuera aprovechado de la mejor forma. Muestra, además, los...
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Este documento analiza la oferta de trabajo no agrícola de los hogares rurales en Bolivia. Se observa que aproximadamente el 50% de todos los hogares en el área rural complementan sus ingresos a través del trabajo no agrícola, esta actividad tiende a ocurrir con más frecuencia en los...
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