Towards a More Employment-Intensive and Pro-Poor Economic Growth in Bolivia

Luis Carlos Jemio () and Maria del Carmen Choque

No 18/2006, Development Research Working Paper Series from Institute for Advanced Development Studies

Abstract: The reform program and growth pattern exhibited by the Bolivian economy in the last decade did not favour employment creation and consequently not an effective reduction of poverty. During the last decade, those sectors where the bulk of employment is concentrated, presented the lowest growth rates of GDP, labour productivity and real incomes. The present paper analyzes in detail the two sectors where the bulk of employment and poverty is concentrated (agriculture and the urban informal sector) in order to determine the critical constraints to improvements in productivity, employment generation, and reductions in poverty.

Keywords: Employment; Poverty; Growth; Bolivia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 O17 O54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 61 pages
Date: 2006-12
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