This article examines the survival and proliferation of peasant miners in the Bolivian mining sector and evaluates the economic and technical efficiency of their operations regarding their success in minimizing costs and in recovering metal

This paper examines three morphological indicators measuring obesity among a native Amazonian population of foragers-farmers in Bolivia (Tsimane’) and estimates the associations between them and standard covariates of obesity (e.g., socioeconomic status [SES]). We collected annual data from...