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Towards a More Employment-Intensive and Pro-Poor
Economic Growth in Bolivia
Luis
Carlos Jemio & Maria del Carmen Choque
December 2006
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.
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