More than 30 journalists from 20 different media outlets assisted at the SimPachamama Press Conference held at Restaurant Vienna in La paz on the 16th of August 2013. As a result of the Press Conference, the following news items appeared in the national media: – La Razón, 17-09-2013: http://www.la-razon.com/sociedad/Plantean-impuesto-extranjeros-deforestacion_0_1889811025.html. – La …

The INESAD working paper “Fighting software piracy: Which governance tools matter in Africa?” written by Antonio Rodriguez y Simplice A. Asongu  was accepted for publication in the Journal of Business Ethics.

A. Install SimPachamama in 3 easy steps: Step 1: Download and install NetLogo In order to play with SimPachamama, you will need to install NetLogo. It is a free programming platform for Agent Based Modeling developed by Northwestern University and it can be downloaded here: http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/download.shtml. Please follow the installation instructions …

Nº 9-August-2013 What is SimPachamama? How to use SimPachamama? The joint mitigation and adaptation mechanism There are no universal recipes Happy Pachamama Policies at SimPachamama The importance of international funding Billions for Bolivia every four years Deforestation fines and taxes Training and workshops More about SimPachamama A team of researchers

SimPachamama is intended to be used in high schools, universities, or training and consultation workshops about policies and mechanisms to reduce deforestation. It is a complementary learning tool which can be used to encourage participation and stimulate discussion and debate about how to design incentives and policies that promote living well …

The SimPachamama project was financed by the British program called “Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation” (ESPA). It was carried out by a consortium of institutions consisting of London School of Economics, INESAD, Conservation International, SOAS and University of Sussex. The main researchers behind SimPachamama are: Lykke E. Andersen (INESAD), Ugur Bilge …

ABSTRACT: This paper is an attempt to understand the factors behind low contract renewal rates frequently observed in insurance programs in poor countries. This is done on the basis of the experience of a microinsurance health program in India. We show that deficient information about the insurance product and the …

ABSTRACT: This paper uses inter-country panel data obtained during the period 1990–2010 to examine how the occurrence of natural disasters has affected corruption within the public sector. There are a number of new findings from this study. (1) Disaster with the large amount of damage increase corruption not only for …

N° 8-Jun-2013 Mechanisms for reducing deforestation Forests, agriculture and cattle ranching The actors involved in deforestation Why is there still so much forest left in Bolivia? Policies that might increase or decrease deforestation rates Bolivia´s Joint Mitigation and Adaptation Mechanism Conclusions and recommendations References

ABSTRACT: Using Kauffman, Kraay, and Mastruzzi governance indicators, this article analyzes the impact of formal institutions on the knowledge economy- by assessing how the enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) through good governance mechanisms affects the knowledge economy. The article also employs the World Bank’s four components of the knowledge …

N° 7-May-2013 Looking eastward South Korea and Bolivia: similarities and differences Thinking in the long term The great commercial opening Promoting innovation Making sacrifices Lessons to learn

ABSTRACT: The carbon sequestration potential of an unmanaged and previously unstudied Guadua angustifolia bamboo forest in the Carrasco National Park of Bolivia has been studied, by estimating the total aboveground biomass contained in the forest. It was found that the aboveground biomass consisting of stems, branches, and foliage, contains a …

Empleo y Regulación Laboral El 5to. Simposio Económico: Empleo y Regulación Laboral se llevó a cabo en la ciudad de Cochabamba el 18 de abril de 2013 en el marco del convenio de colaboración interinstitucional suscrito con el Colegio Departamental de Economistas de Cochabamba. Uno de los aspectos a resaltar, …

ABSTRACT: Strong rural-urban linkages are increasingly seen as key to achieving sustainable livelihoods and food security in developing countries. However, not all linkages are positive and, although this is recognised in literature, few explore their potential unfavourable characteristics. Based on twelve weeks fieldwork in Guatemala this paper aims to contribute …

ABSTRACT: This paper proposes a simple way to measure livelihood diversification, and uses this measure together with income levels to classify Bolivian households by level of vulnerability. Regression analysis is then carried out to determine the factors and strategies associated with high resilience or high vulnerability. The results show that …

N° 6-February-2013 Context Research Key Findings Conclusions Policy Implications, Recommendations

Abstract This paper employs a recent methodological innovation on intellectual property rights (IPRs) harmonization to project global timelines for common policies against business software piracy. The findings on 99 countries are premised on 15 fundamental characteristics of software piracy based on income-levels (high- ncome, lower-middle-income, upper-middle-income and low-income), legal-origins (English …

N° 5-January-2013 The Andean Glaciers The PRAA project Climate Change Implications Assessment Courses in Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador Ten steps for estimating climate change impacts Research proposals Conclusions and recommendations

Abstract: El estudio analiza el empleo en las empresas manufactureras registradas bolivianas durante 1988-2007, estableciendo su relación con la regulación laboral a partir de indicadores de flujos y funciones de demanda. Los flujos de empleo muestran que las empresas con altas tasas de trabajadores temporales, comparativamente con aquellos permanentes asalariados, …

Abstract Productivity differences can explain differences in economic growth across countries. It has been demonstrated that the presence of a foreign-owned multinational enterprise (MNE) in a developing country is one of the most important methods through which technology transfer occurs. This presence could be in the form of foreign direct …

Carlos Gustavo Machicado Este volumen presenta los resultados de una investigación que identifica los factores limitantes del crecimiento económico de Bolivia y de sus regiones, y a partir de dicho análisis propone políticas o estrategias alternativas que permitan superar las causas estructurales que restringen su desarrollo.         …

Abstract Using data on Uruguayan adolescents, we estimate peer effects in risk attitudes. Relative risk aversion is elicited in an experimental setting. Identification is based on parents not being able to choose the class within the school of their choice. After controlling for school-grade fixed effect and addressing endogeneity due …

The Institute for Advanced Development Studies (INESAD), the Society of Bolivian Economists (SEBOL), the Military Engineering School (EMI), and the Bolivian Academy of Economic Sciences (ABCE) are jointly organizing the Fourth Bolivian Conference on Development Economics, to be hosted by EMI in La Paz, Bolivia, on November 6 and 7, …

El Empleo en Debate El Cuarto Simposio Económico: “El Empleo en Debate” se llevó a cabo el 25 de octubre del 2012 en el Salón Las Américas del Hotel Presidente en la ciudad de La Paz, Bolivia.Las temáticas desarrolladas durante este evento estuvieron enmarcadas en las ponencias de Beatriz Muriel …

Abstract: This article integrates previously missing components of government quality into the governance-piracy nexus in exploring governance mechanisms by which global obligations for the treatment of IPRs are effectively transmitted from international to the national level in the battle against piracy. It assesses the best governance tools in the fight …

Abstract: We explore empirically models of aggregate fluctuations with two basic ingredients: agents form anticipations about the future based on noisy sources of information and these anticipations affect spending and output in the short run. Our objective is to separate fluctuations due to actual changes in fundamentals (news) from those due to temporary errors …

N° 4-September-2012   Employment in the current situation Social and Regulatory Welfare: Kuznets Curve Employment and labor costs resulting from regulation

Abstract: La investigación analiza el desempeño de las exportaciones en Bolivia a la luz de los empleos que genera, directos e indirectos, con los siguientes resultados destacables: i) la creación de fuentes laborales se ha concentrado en los bienes no tradicionales ya que son intensivos en este factor de producción; …

Abstract: This paper analyzes employment in Bolivian registered manufacturing firms during 1988 to 2007, establishing its relationship with labor regulation. Estimating job flows, we find that firms with high temporary worker rates (less labor regulation costs) are those with both higher job reallocation rates and higher net employment growth, and …

Desarrollo visto desde el sur El tercer Simposio Económico se realizo el 12 de julio de 2012 en el Hotel Europa de la ciudad de La Paz, donde se presentaron los libros, “Desarrollo visto desde el Sur” de la investigadora Lykke Andersen y “Factores que influyen en el crecimiento y …

N° 3-August-2012 National Environmental Accounts Nature’s contribution to various production sectors Revenues and taxes on natural resources Environmentally adjusted PIB Productive capital From forest to agriculture Recommendations for future research

ABSTRACT: This paper examines bureaucratic delay within the allocation of small infrastructure projects by sub municipal governments in Bolivia, and it presents a randomized eld experiment designed to improve public service delivery by promoting voice, transparency, and accountability among grassroots organizations. The experiment consists of randomly providing sub municipal governments …

N° 1-Jun-2012 Forests vs. agriculture The REDD international mechanism OSIRIS Applications – Bolivia and CISS What could be achieved in Bolivia by means of $1 billion earmarked for reducing deforestation? Co-benefits Deforestation taxes Conclusions

Bolivia tiene un gran potencial para mitigar el cambio climático a través de la reducción de la deforestación. Mientras que las posibles complicaciones han sido intensamente debatidas, se ha realizado poco análisis cuantitativo al respecto. Introducimos el modelo OSIRIS-Bolivia con el fin de crear una base cuantitativa para la toma …

ABSTRACT: Using individual-level data for China,South Korea, and Japan for2006, this research examines how life satisfaction for married males and femalesin East Asian countries isinfluenced bythe age of theirchildren. Our results show that the life satisfaction of males is barely affected by a child of the relationship, whereas the life …

ABSTRACT: We calibrate a simple neoclassical model of structural transformation to a set of Latin American countries and show that slow growth in agricultural productivity can substantially delay the development process and result in signicant dierences in per capita incomes. Some of our results indicate that low agricultural productivity delayed …

ABSTRACT: Bolivia has significant potential to abate climate change by reducing deforestation. This opportunity presents economic and environmental tradeoffs. While these tradeoffs have been hotly debated, they have as yet been the subject of little quantitative analysis. We introduce the OSIRIS-Bolivia model to provide a quantitative basis for decision-making. OSIRIS-Bolivia …

ABSTRACT: This study explores the economic consequences of earthquakes. In particular, it is investigated how exposure to earthquakes afects economic growth both across and within countries. The key result of the empirical analysis is that while there are no observable efects at the country level, earthquake exposure signicantly decreases 5-year …

ABSTRACT: La economía regional ha sido hasta ahora considerada en la literatura sobre desarrollo económico e inversión en Bolivia, sin embargo, en la mayoría de los trabajos no se había tomado en cuenta la posibilidad de existencia de autocorrelación espacial; es decir, que el valor observado en un sitio depende …

ABSTRACT: In this article a process-tracing approach is used to explore how different factors have contributed to the development of healthcare policy in Bolivia, in light of the current proposal to introduce a unified public healthcare system. The main findings are that although international relations and state bureaucrats have been …

ABSTRACT: El presente documento contribuye con evidencia acerca del impacto ex-post al programa de transferencias condicionales Bono Juancito Pinto en las escuelas públicas de Bolivia. Con el fin de identificar correctamente a los potenciales beneficiarios y evitar problemas de endogeneidad y sesgo de selección, se evalúa el efecto del anuncio …

The Institute for Advanced Development Studies (INESAD), the Society of Bolivian Economists (SEBOL), Universidad Católica Boliviana (UCB), and the Bolivian Academy of Economic Sciences (ABCE) are jointly organizing the Third Bolivian Conference on Development Economics, to be held at the Department of Economics at Universidad Católica Boliviana in La Paz, …

ABSTRACT: Los controles de precios son medidas que pueden afectar considerablemente a los sectores sujetos a dichas políticas. Mediante un modelo de equilibrio general dinámico estocastico con dos tipos de agentes: campesinos y citadinos, calibrado para Bolivia, se muestra que ante caidas en la productividad del sector agropecuario, el empleo …

ABSTRACT: We present an analysis of the effects of foreign aid on economic development when the quality of governance may be compromised by corruption. The analysis is based on a dynamic general equilibrium model in which growth is driven by capital accumulation and public policy is administered by government-appointed bureaucrats. …

ABSTRACT: Se desarrolla y ajusta un modelo de equilibrio general dinamico y estocastico con 2 sectores, el formal y el informal, para la economia boliviana. El objetivo del modelo es evaluar los impactos de las ultimas reformas laborales sobre el empleo, los salarios y el producto. En concreto, analizo el …

Experiencia Surcoreana en desarrollo económico El reto de toda economía es el crecimiento, pero, parafraseando a una famosa mexicana, Ballard, se podría decir que el crecimiento por sí solo no es suficiente, ya que es necesario saber cómo crecer. El Instituto de Estudios Avanzados en Desarrollo (INESAD) interesado en ambas …

ABSTRACT: La presente investigación analiza la producción de la quinua como una opción para mejorar los ingresos rurales del Altiplano de Bolivia; dado que, por un lado, el grano se armoniza óptimamente a las costumbres y tradiciones laborales y familiares de los habitantes de ésta región y, por otro lado, …

Kathlen Lizárraga The book Technical education and production in Bolivia is part of a series of initiatives carried out within the framework of the project “100 years of education in Bolivia”, promoted by civil society with the aim of contributing information and analysis to the educational debate, contributing to improving …

ABSTRACT: This paper analyzes the factors that explain earnings in levels and inequality in the urban areas of Bolivia, considering not only the usual individual characteristics (education, experience, gender, and ethnicity) but also firm characteristics. Given the information available at the firm level in the household surveys, two simple models …

ABSTRACT: We study economic growth in four emerging economies – Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRIC). Questions addressed are: (a) How do medium term growth determinants differ from short term determinants? (b) What are differences between growth effects of aggregate versus disaggregated exports? And (c) Does lower institutional quality hinder …

ABSTRACT: This papers reviews main topics concerning sub-national revenues (intergovernmental transfers and taxes) and discusses some policy options to develop own sub-national revenues. The review covers the political-legal framework and the fiscal outcomes, finding that: i) intergovernmental transfers policies have expanded over time, generating inequity problems, principally at the departmental …

Dr. Lykke E. Andersen INESAD’s new book “Development from Within” collects the Monday Morning Development bulletins written by Dr. Lykke E. Andersen over the past 5 years.           → Download the book   Unable to display PDF file. Download instead.

ABSTRACT: Using data for the third wave from the European Social Survey (ESS) and the Fourth Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (K-NHANES), this research examines the relationship between having children at home and depression among men and women aged 18-75 years. Multilevel and probit regression models are applied. …

ABSTRACT: El presente documento busca de manera indicativa explicitar algunos elementos conceptuales y prácticos para construir el problema acerca del tema, pues la diversidad de ángulos desde donde se lo aborda da la impresión de que el problema mismo no está conceptualizado de manera homogénea. En ese sentido, la reflexión …

Política fiscal y crecimiento La política fiscal por sí sola no es suficiente para el crecimiento. Sin embargo, cuando se combina con inversión pública eficiente y con aumento en la productividad, la política fiscal puede no sólo alcanzar tasas significativas de crecimiento en el largo plazo, sino también mejorar las …

Literature on convergence among Latin American countries is still scarce compared to other regions. Almost none of the research connects convergence to the economic history of Latin America and the usual finding is one speed of convergence assuming one globally stable steady-state. In this paper I analyze 32 countries and …

ABSTRACT: El presente estudio estima el aporte de los servicios ecosistémicos a la economía y al PIB del sector de Silvicultura, Caza y Pesca, usando dos metodologías complementarias. La primera basada en el Manual de Cuentas Nacionales que considera que el capital natural y específicamente su renta forma parte del …

ABSTRACT: The purpose of the present paper is to demonstrate the usefulness of Green National Accounting by drawing out some interesting insights from the Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounts recently elaborated by the Institute for Advanced Development Studies for the case of Bolivia. The paper uses the Green National Accounts …

ABSTRACT: El presente documento resume el enfoque teórico utilizado, metodología aplicada, supuestos empleados, resultados obtenidos y principales conclusiones arribadas en el cálculo de las Cuentas Medioambientales para Bolivia. El objetivo es el de medir la contribución del medioambiente a la generación del ingreso y del producto, así como el determinar …

ABSTRACT: A new inflationary memory indicator was developed and applied here. A panel was built with the selected countries considering the economic growth as dependent variable in function of the convergence hypothesis, the inflation rate, the public expense and, the recursive variance of the inflation (VARINF) as inflationary memory indicator. …

ABSTRACT: This paper uses matching techniques to examine the impact of internet use on individual earnings in six Latin American countries using recent household surveys data. Given their different internet use patterns and their implications, the analysis is done for salaried and self-employed workers separately. While salaried worker users mainly …

The Institute for Advanced Development Studies (INESAD), the Society of Bolivian Economists (SBE), and Universidad Privada Boliviana (UPB), are jointly organizing the second Bolivian Conference on Development Economics, to be held on November 18-19, 2010, at UPB’s Achocalla Campus in La Paz, Bolivia. The conference aims at bringing together local …

ABSTRACT: This paper analyses the impact of the Global Financial Crisis on the Bolivian economy. The PEP 1-1 Standard Model has been employed to analyze the effects of a reduction in (i) the world export prices of mining and agriculture, (ii) the world demand of textiles, and (iii) transfers to …

ABSTRACT: This paper uses municipality level data to estimate the general relationships between climate, income and child mortality in Mexico. Climate was found to play only a very minor role in explaining the large differences in income levels and child mortality rates observed in Mexico. This implies that Mexico is …

ABSTRACT: The paper uses data from 5,507 municipalities in Brazil to estimate the relationships between climate and income as well as climate and health, and then uses the estimated relationships to gauge the effects of past and future climate change on income levels and life expectancy in each of these …

ABSTRACT: La investigación analiza los determinantes de los ingresos laborales en las zonas urbanas de Bolivia. Además de considerar los usuales “factores de oferta” como factores explicativos — educación, experiencia, género y etnia, aporta a la literatura empírica al tomar en cuenta también las características productivas de las firmas. La …

ABSTRACT: El estudio presenta un panorama de las reformas sociales y económicas implementadas en Bolivia desde 1985, en su relación e incidencia con el funcionamiento del mercado de trabajo. Inicialmente, se destaca la efectividad de las llamadas Reformas Estructurales, aplicadas durante 1985-2005, en la generación de la estabilidad macroeconómica; en …

The Institute for Advanced Development Studies (INESAD), the Society of Bolivian Economists (SBE), and Universidad Privada Boliviana (UPB), are jointly organizing the first Bolivian Conference on Development Economics, to be held at UPB’s Achocalla Campus in La Paz, Bolivia, 8-9 October 2009. The conference aims at bringing together local and …

María Reneé Bejarano, Marco Antonio Salazar, Osvaldo Nina This research was carried out between May and October 2006, with the objective of understanding the situation of decentralization at the global, departmental and municipal levels, as well as analyzing the relationship between decentralization processes and access, permanence, quality and equity of …

ABSTRACT: Este estudio busca respnder las siguintes interrogantes: ¿Quál es la magnitud y cómo se distribuyen los subsidios que se transfieren a los hogares a través de la provisioón pública de los servicios de educación y salud?; ¿Cuál es la magnitud y cómo se distribuyen los impues a los hogares?; …

ABSTRACT: The paper analyzes the Bolivian experience in switching from an old publicly managed pay-as-you-go pension system to a privately managed, fully funded pension system.

ABSTRACT: After several decades of “state-capitalism” characterized by import substitution policies, Bolivia implemented in 1985 a New Economic Policy (NEP) following neo-liberal ideas of free trade, privatization, and liberalization of capital flows. It was hoped that the opening up of the economy would attract foreign direct investment (FDI) which in …

ABSTRACT: Poverty in Bolivia continues to be among the highest in Latin America despite decades of concerted national and international efforts to reduce it. Bolivia has meticulously followed the recommendations of the Washington consensus at the same time as external aid has been generous and foreign direct investment has boomed. …

ABSTRACT: Las últimas dos décadas han visto mejoramientos sustanciales en la asistencia escolar de niñas en América Latina, hasta el punto que, en la mayoría de los países, más niñas que niños asisten a las escuelas. Sin embargo, Bolivia es una excepción, especialmente en áreas rurales donde la brecha educativa …

ABSTRACT: This study focuses on analysing the linkages between output growth, employment and poverty, at both the macro and micro levels. At the macro level, the linkage between poverty and output growth is conceptualised in terms of the average productivity of the employed work force, which in turn gets reflected …

ABSTRACT: Este documento presenta proyecciones detalladas de población y pobreza que consideren los cambios demográficos y económicos esperados (esto último en términos de fecundidad, mortalidad, migración, educación y crecimiento del PIB) y sus reflejos en la movilidad económica por tipo de hogar. Las proyecciones de este tipo podrían ser útiles …

ABSTRACT: This paper makes detailed population and poverty projections that take into account expected demographic changes (in terms of fertility, mortality, migration, and education) as well as differentials in social mobility by household type. Such projections could be useful for a variety of purposes ranging from assessment of necessary social …

ABSTRACT: This document investigates the effectiveness of foreign aid in Bolivia. When comparing accumulated aid in each sector during the period 1998-2002 with the progress in each sector during the same period, it becomes clear that the four sectors receiving by far the most aid (Institutional strengthening, Rural Development, Roads, …