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People

Population	9.52 mln
Population growth	2%
Life expectancy	66 years
Net migration	-100,000

Economy

GDP	$13.12 bln
- per capita	$1,379
- growth rate	5%
FDI, net inflows	$0.2 bln

Infrastructure

Cellphone users	34%
Internet users	11%
High-tech exports	5%

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Reducing reliance on natural resource revenue and increasing subnational tax autonomy in Bolivia

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This paper address options for restructuring the revenue system of Bolivia’s subnational governments, particularly prefectures, emphasizing reduction of dependence on natural resources and strengthening of subnational tax autonomy. The paper additionally identifies tax instruments or tax bases that could be assigned exclusively to regional governments or shared with the central government, assessing their main advantages and disadvantages through a simulation of revenue generation. The results more...

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D C on April 26, 2012

Libraries Powering Development

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Public and community libraries are sustainable local institutions that can stimulate grassroots development. The 21st century library is no longer just about books or solely a place for kids. Libraries around the world can and have become powerful partners to help deliver services that enable communities to achieve the MDGs. As this report will illustrate, at a time of constrained budgets, libraries offer a proven, existing and sustainable venue that delivers results.

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Sonia Hossain on April 09, 2012

Foreign Aid’s Impact on Political Institutions

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How does foreign aid affect recipient countries’ political institutions? Two competing hypotheses offer contradictory predictions. The first sees aid, when delivered correctly, as an important means of making dictatorial recipient countries more democratic. The second sees aid as a corrosive force on recipient countries’ political institutions that makes them more dictatorial. This paper offers a third hypothesis about how aid affects recipients’ political institutions that we call the more...

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Sonia Hossain on April 01, 2012

Sustainable Markets for Subsistence Farmers in Bolivia

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This FIELD Report, number 7 in the exploratory series, discusses the primary objectives and key lessons learned by the Save the Children team in adapting its operations to more effective affect sustainable impacts for low-income and food insecure households in Bolivia. Save the Children worked to reduce chronic malnutrition in one of the most malnourished parts of the world., including Bolivia where Save the Children managed and implemented three integrated components—Health, Income Generation, more...

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Sonia Hossain on March 19, 2012

Assessing National Institutional Capacity for Climate Change Adaptation

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This report introduces the National Adaptive Capacity (NAC) framework, a tool to help governments bring institutional capacity development into their adaptation planning processes. The NAC framework enables its users to systematically assess institutional strengths and weaknesses that may help or hinder adaptation. National adaptation plans may then be better designed to make best use of strengths or remedy weaknesses. The report describes three pilot assessments conducted using the NAC more...

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Sonia Hossain on February 29, 2012

Pro-poor benefit distribution in REDD+

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Ensuring the poor or the most vulnerable sections of society benefit from REDD+ is key mainly to build both national and international legitimacy, and foster successful delivery of conservation and social objectives. Equitable benefit sharing issues at a community or household level are overlooked in both academic and non-academic literature compared to distributional issues at international level. Therefore, this paper aims to look at some of the issues related to benefit distribution at more...

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Sonia Hossain on February 06, 2012

OHCHR Report 2010

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The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is the leading UN entity on human rights. OHCHR provides assistance, such as technical expertise and capacity development in the areas of administration of justice, legislative reform and electoral processes, to help implement international human rights standards on the ground. This report reflects OHCHR's Strategic Management Plan for 2010-2011, which defines the six thematic priorities for the biennium: discrimination; impunity and more...

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Sonia Hossain on February 28, 2012

Assessing National Institutional Capacity for Climate Change Adaptation

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This working paper introduces the National Adaptive Capacity (NAC) framework, a tool to assist governments in bringing institutional capacity development into their adaptation planning processes. The NAC framework enables its users to systematically assess institutional strengths and weaknesses that may help or hinder adaptation. National adaptation plans may then be better designed to make best use of strengths or remedy weaknesses. This working paper describes three pilot assessments more...

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Sonia Hossain on January 19, 2012

Unemployment in Bolivia: Risks and Labor Market Policies

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This paper attempts to evaluate the effectiveness of Bolivia’s labor market institutions, particularly the Plan Nacional de Empleo de Emergencia (PLANE). It is found that unemployment as conventionally defined may not be the most important problem in Bolivia’s labor market, as the non-salaried market is always an alternative. While un- employment durations and unemployment scarring consequences are relatively low, labor market regulations and labor market programs do not help to increase the more...

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Moushumi Biswas on January 01, 2012

Rural migration in Bolivia: the impact of climate change, economic crisis and state policy

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This paper describes the impact of gradual environmental change on the livelihoods of people living in two very different areas of Bolivia: the Northern Potosí region, in the Andean highlands, and the municipality of San Julián, in the tropical eastern lowlands of the country. The authors show that mobility has long been an essential component of livelihoods in both locations, and in many cases it is increasing as the result of the decline in natural resources due to climate change. There are more...

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Farina Ahmed on April 28, 2011

Latin America and the Caribbean: Illicit Drug Trafficking and U.S. Counterdrug Programs

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Drug trafficking-related crime and violence in Latin America and the Caribbean has escalated in recent years, raising the drug issue to the forefront of U.S. foreign policy concerns. This report provides an overview of the drug flows in the Americas and U.S. antidrug assistance programs in the region. It also raises some policy issues for Congress to consider as it exercises oversight of U.S. antidrug programs and policies in the Western Hemisphere.

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Sonia Hossain on June 26, 2011

Latin America and Peace Operations: Partners and Perspectives

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This Volume 13 of The Pearson Papers is a collection of articles by academics and practitioners from the hemisphere who engage in a variety of peace operations activities. These partners have graciously agreed to share their perspectives, experience and lessons learned on a multitude of core issues within or closely related to peace operations. The articles discuss a number of topics including the role of military observers and police in peace operations, the participation of women and training more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 29, 2011

The Value of Water in Bolivia: An Economic Resource or a Human Right?

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After the 2000 ‘Water-War’, access to water in Bolivia has become a major social demand and thus a prime and contentious political issue. The event has revealed an overwhelming opposition to neo-liberal approaches to water management and has allowed the articulation of a new discourse that sees water not as an economic resource but as a human right. In this context, the paper reviews the two contrasting positions within the debate about whether or not water should be treated as an economic more...

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Farina Ahmed on December 26, 2010

Procurement, tied aid and country systems in Bolivia

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Bolivia’s economic situation has improved a lot over the past four years and this has also made major increases in public expenditure possible. Bolivia is now able to shift from a policy of fiscal tightening to one of active investment, fostering development through the procurement system. It is important to remember that international development assistance has traditionally been the mainstay of public investment in economies such as Bolivia’s. This situation has opened the door for more...

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D C on August 18, 2011

Measuring the Depth of Indigenous Peoples and Community Forest Tenure

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This brief presents some preliminary results of a legal analysis conducted by RRI to provide a fuller picture of Indigenous Peoples and community forest tenure rights globally. This analysis unpacks the collective rights to forestland and forest resources held by communities and codified in law. The analysis assesses whether communities can access forest resources; make decisions over forest management; commercially harvest timber or other forest products; exclude outsiders from their forests; more...

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Sonia Hossain on July 20, 2011

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