This paper (available only in Spanish) makes fresh estimates of rural poverty in Bolivia based on 1999 national survey data, and reviews the experience of rural development programs in the country during the 1990s. A substantial statistical appendix is included

World food prices surged strongly in recent years, with two waves of rising prices in 2007-08 and 2010-11. For food-importing countries affected at the same time by significant levels of undernourishment and malnutrition, sudden rises in the international price of food may have a strong impact...

Two previous articles proposed and validated a continuous measure of the material standard of living as concerns basic household infrastructure (housing, water, energy and sanitation). The scale is based on Principal Component Analysis of a large number of variables derived from census...

In a previous paper a quantitative scale was developed, and applied to Bolivia, to measure some basic aspects of the material standard of living, namely those related to the physical infrastructure of households, involving shelter and basic services as measured in population censuses. Using data...

In the context of analysis of Millennium Goals and Human Development in Bolivia a synthetic measure of household infrastructure was developed. The measure was constructed applying factor analysis to a large number of census indicators concerning shelter, living space, water supply, energy and...