El día miércoles 13 de febrero de la presente gestión la Fundación INESAD junto a la Academia Boliviana de Ciencias Económicas, tuvieron el agrado de presentar el Taller de Debate Socioeconómico: “Ni Socialismo ni Neoliberalismo: Hacia un nuevo modelo económico” por el economista especialista en políticas públicas y descentralización Iván …

By:   Abstract   This paper analyzes Bolivia’s long-term economic growth between 1950 and 2015, identifying its proximate causes through a growth accounting exercise, which considers the direct and indirect effects of Total Factor Productivity (TFP) on GDP per worker. The novelty is that the measurement of TFP that is …

By: Martin Vallejos Tarqui Shirley Navia Cáceres Abstract This study analyses the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) effects on the macroeconomic dynamics of Bolivi-an economy. For this purpose, a Structural Vector Autoregression model (SVAR) is used. The results show the expected signs according to economic theory, which implies a positive effect …

Llegando a su 9na edición la Conferencia Boliviana en Desarrollo Económico tuvo lugar en Santa Cruz de la Sierra los días 29 y 30 de noviembre del año en curso. En esta ocasión la conferencia fue organizada por la Sociedad de Economistas de Bolivia (SEBOL), el Instituto de Estudios Avanzados …

By:  David Zeballos Coria Juan Carlos Heredia Gómez Paola Yujra Tonconi  Abstract The objective of this paper is to evaluate the cyclical behavior of the Bolivian economy based on a Markov-Switching Dynamic General Equilibrium model (MS-DSGE). Using a model for a small open economy, with monetary targeting and foreign-exchange intervention, …

El día miércoles 07 de noviembre el Economics Research Workshop (ERW) en su XXVIava edición estuvo acompañado por el Taller de Investigación Económica TIA, siendo la segunda vez que ambos talleres se unen para presentar una investigación económica. En esta oportunidad Darwin Ugarte, PhD., docente y jefe de carrera de …

By: Darwin Ugarte Ontiveros Osmar Bolivar Rosales Abstract This document aims to analyze empirically the effectiveness of decentralization in Bolivia. Effectiveness is understood as the capacity of local administration to cover its local needs. The research measures the effect of the central government’s local investment (the Bolivia Cambia program) on …

By: Luis Fernando Castro Peñarrieta Gustavo Zárate Taborga Valeria Salinas Maceda   Abstract Inequality in Bolivia is normally measured through income. However, the construction of a socio-economic index (ISE), using the four available censuses 1976, 1992, 2001 and 2012, permits to analyze inequality in long-term as well as under a …

By: Bernardo X. Fernández Marcelo Gantier Martín Palmero La Paz, September 2018 Abstract Between 2006 and 2014, Bolivia experimented an economic boom period driven mainly by high international prices of commodities. Paradoxically, in the same period, social demands increased and concerns related to the high levels of corruption in public …

By: Joaquín Morales Valeria Salinas La Paz, September 2018 Abstract We explore reasons underlying the economic prosperity of certain popular merchants in Bolivia. Even if economics often associates popular merchants with poor economic performance and low productivity, anthropological evidence shows the existence of large fortunes in the bolivian popular economy …

El pasado miércoles 3 de octubre, el taller de debate económico denominado Economics Research Workshop ERW alcanzó su Vigésima quinta edición, evento organizado por la Universidad Privada de Bolivia UPB, la Sociedad de Economistas de Bolivia SEBOL, la Academia Boliviana de Ciencias Económicas ABCE y el Instituto de Estudios Avanzados …

Este pasado miércoles 5 de septiembre del año en curso, se realizó el Vigésimo Cuarto Economics Research Workshop (ERW) organizado por la Universidad Privada Boliviana, la Sociedad de Economistas de Bolivia, la Academia de Ciencias Económicas y la Fundación INESAD.

By: Boris Branisa C. Carlos Gustavo Machicado S. Mario Marcelo Arduz R. Abstract This document analyzes the implementation of a financial system (software) for the Community Financial Institutions (CFEs) carried out between 2011 and 2012. The system was a set of financial modules that facilitated the administration of information and …

By: Inés Valeria Lagrava León La Paz, February 2018 Abstract Despite the efforts made to reduce neonatal mortality in the Plurinational State of Bolivia, and the implementation of the Universal Maternal and Child Health Insurance (SUMI), the data reveal that progress has been slower than achieved in terms of reducing …

Como de costumbre, cada primer miércoles de mes, La Universidad Privada Boliviana, la Sociedad de Economistas de Bolivia, la Academia Boliviana de Ciencias Económicas y la Fundación INESAD realizaron el Vigésimo Tercer Economics Research Workshop, el pasado primero de agosto del año en curso.

El día miércoles 25 de Julio, se llevó a cabo el taller de debate económico, en el cual se presentó el documento: “A comparative Analysis of the Dynamics of Prices in Argentina and Venezuela from the Structuralist Theory of Inflation” por Sebastián Isaías, MSc.

The book published in 2016, in commemoration of INESAD’s 10th anniversary, was massively disseminated in 2017, both nationally and internationally. The ABC of Development in Bolivia has 30 chapters, written by 31 authors, which analyze the different dimensions of Bolivia’s sustainable socioeconomic development over the last 25 years. The studies …

Content: What is meant by labor productivity? What is the labor productivity situation in Bolivia? Why is labor productivity low in Bolivia?  

El día miércoles 6 de junio del año en curso se llevó a cabo el Vigésimo Segundo Economics Research Workshop organizado por la Universidad Privada Boliviana, la Sociedad de Economistas de Bolivia, la Academia Boliviana de Ciencias Económicas y la Fundación INESAD. En esta oportunidad se presentó el trabajo de …

Expertos afirman que las empresas que operan en el país pagan los impuestos y regalías y que el Estado y las regiones son los responsables de ejecutar los programas. La pobreza en los municipios  donde se desarrollan las principales actividades hidrocarburíferas del país, ronda entre un 43,2% y un 82,8%, …

By: Beatriz Muriel Hernández & Alejandro Herrera J. La Paz, December 2017 Abstract This paper analyzes Bolivian Global Value Chains (GVC) for 2002, 2005 and 2011, using the Vertical Specialization Index (EV) of  Hummels et al. (2001) and the measure of Upstreamness of Antràs y Chor (2011) (cited by Antràs et …

By: Darwin Ugarte Ontiveros, Gustavo Canavire-Bacarreza and Luis Castro Peñarrieta October 2017 Abstract Average treatment effects estimands can present significant bias under the presence of outliers. Moreover, outliers can be particularly hard to detect, creating bias and inconsistency in the semi-parametric ATE estimads. In this paper, we use Monte Carlo simulations to demonstrate …

By: Luis Carlos Jemio, Lykke E. Andersen & Agnes Medinaceli La Paz, October 2017 Abstract: This paper calculates and analyzes key indicators from Bolivia’s Green National Accounts during the period 1990 – 2015, which covers an entire Commodity Super Cycle. The first half includes the Great Commodities Depression while the second half of …

By: Lykke E. Andersen, Augustus Griffin, Justus J. Krause &  Gabriel Orduña Montekio La Paz, October 2017 Abstract: There is conceptually a big difference between inequality of opportunity and inequality of outcomes, and the policies needed to address the two different kinds of inequality are also very different. However, it is difficult to …

By: Johnny Suxo La Paz, octubre de 2017 Resumen La estimación de las cuentas ambientales a nivel subnacional es importante en Bolivia, debido a la heterogénea distribución espacial de los activos ambientales en el territorio nacional, en particular para departamentos de escasa diversificación productiva, donde la extracción de recursos naturales …

Erica Tauzer, Mercy J. Borbor-Cordova, Telmo de la Cuadra, Susana del Granado, Carol Franco-Bellini, Carlos Medina, Jhoyzette Mendoza, Moory M. Romero-Fernandez, Anna M. Stewart-Ibarra La Paz, September 2017   Abstract Flood risk is increasing in urban areas due to increased population and urban development, a changing climate, coastal subsidence, and …

Dr. Lykke Andersen, Senior Researcher at INESAD, participated in this year’s PEGNet Conference, which was held in Zürich, Switzerland, on the 11th and 12th of September. The theme of the conference was “Understanding national inequalities and how to address them” and it brought together some of the World’s foremost experts …

El Investigador Junior de la Red EMINPRO, Lic. José Acuña Carrasco, impartió un taller sobre el programa ArcGis aplicado a la presentación de resultados, a los funcionarios de la Fundación INESAD, el 14 de julio en instalaciones de INESAD. El curso estuvo enfocado a los sistemas de información geográfica, la …

The Rural Academic Unit (Unidad Académica Campesina, UAC) Tiahuanacu, of the Bolivian Catholic University “San Pablo” hosted the senior researchers of INESAD Foundation, Lykke E. Andersen and Boris Branisa for presentation the “El ABC del desarrollo en Bolivia” book.

The EMINPRO Network of the INESAD Foundation realized a draw for choosing the winner of the game “Emprendedurismo y Decisiones de Empleo”. The first winner was ANA IRMA AGUILAR DE FLORES, the second JORGE GONZALES AYALA and the third was GARY LUIS GENG ARDAYA.

Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CNC) directory, invited an INESAD Foundation for has doing the presentation of his last bibliographic production, “El ABC del desarrollo en Bolivia”. The dissertation was in CNC’s building  at 19:00, on Monday, March 20 th. The Seniors Researchers, Lykke E Andersen and Boris Branisa exposed …

Continues whit the presentations of the recent bibliographic production of INESAD Foundation, the Senior Researchers Lykke E. Andersen, Osvaldo Nina, and Boris Branisa exposed the book in the Pontificial, Real, and Major University of San Francisco Xavier (USFX) in Chuquisaca, in Sucre – Bolivia.

The first journal article describing and documenting our educational simulation tool, SimPachamama, was published today in the journal Ecological Economics. The full article, written by INESAD’s senior researcher Lykke E. Andersen and her colleagues at London School of Economics, University of Sussex and Conservation International, can be downloaded for free …

On Thursday, Febrary 9th, in the central bibliotheca of the Bolivian Catholic University “San Pablo” was realized the participatory workshop : “¿Es justo? A dos años del studio de la producción de la quinua real y el bienestar de la mujer andina”, organized by the Socioeconomic Research Institute (IISEC).

  Abstract This article analyzes the importance of firm characteristics to explain earnings in urban Bolivia. Initially I propose a new simple theoretical model of segmented labor market where, in equilibrium, individual and firm variables jointly determine earnings at the worker level. The key for achieving this equilibrium is that …

The Institute for Advanced Development Studies, INESAD, keeps up leadership in the Global Think Tank Index Report 2016, ranked in the first position in Bolivia and position 41 in the top Think Tanks in Central and South America ranking. Also in the category Think Tank Watch, (Think Tanks in this …

Diego A. Vera Cossio Department of Economics, University of California, San Diego Abstract In this study, I use the timing and eligibility criteria of a large-scale conditional cash transfer program in Bolivian public schools to identify the efect of the program on adults’ labor supply. I find that adult females …

Contenido Carta del Director Datos de contacto Reseña cronológica de los principales hitos institucionales Estructura de INESAD Misión, Visión, Objetivos y valores Plan Estratégico Institucional 2015-2020 Agenda de Investigación 2020 Alianzas estratégicas Áreas de investigación Eventos Pasantías Embajador Publicaciones en línea y Redes Sociales, RR SS

  The President of the Organizing Committee of the 7th Bolivian Conference on Development Economics (BCDE 2016), Boris Branisa, proclaimed that yet again, the BCDE 2016 was a success thanks to the participation of high level exhibitors and the motivation of attendees to discuss development issues. Furthermore, Branisa emphasized that …

“El ABC del desarrollo en Bolivia” is a research, which has thirty chapters about development like water, trash, crime …metropolitan zones), the book was written by 31 authors and edit by Lykke E. Andersen, Boris Branisa and Stefano Canelas, all of them workers of the Institute for Advanced Development Studies.

The Institute for Advanced Studies on Development, INESAD, accomplished 10 years of creation, diffusion, and transmission of knowledge oriented to overcoming critical barriers to sustainable development. For celebrating its 10th anniversary, INESAD made the book “El ABC del desarrollo en Bolivia”, which was presented on December 1th, 2016, in the …

The event was on October 31st in the CIESS- Econométrica offices. In this opportunity, the members of the network that promoted this initiative were the Institute of Advanced Studies Development (INESAD) and the Bolivian Academy of Economic Science (ABCE). The topics were: Which are the new researches about labor informality …

The Instituto Cruceño de Estadística (ICE) of the Autonomist Departmental Government of Santa Cruz, realized the first working day of statistics “Planning with data for the life: Strengthen the departmental statistics” on October, 20th, and 21th in the Government House. In the event, exposed topics about the application and use …

The Employment, Income and Production Network (EMINPRO), whit the Private Business Entities Federation of Cochabamba (FEPC) support, realized the Seminar: Abilities for the labor market, on October, 20th in Cochabamba City. In this opportunity, the members of the network who promoted the initiative was INESAD, the Private Bolivian University (UPB) …

Anna Stewart, Ph.D., imparted to the members of INESAD, a presentation on October, 14th in the INESAD offices. Her job is to understand the climate role and the social vulnerability in the apparition and persistence of emerging sicknesses as cholera and other sicknesses in Latin America. Over the last years, …

The 7th Economics Research Workshop (ERW) organized by the Institute for Advanced Studies Development, the Bolivian Private University, the Bolivian Economist Society and the Bolivian Academic of Economics Science, was on Wednesday, October 5th in the postgrad auditorium of the UPB.

The Senior Researcher Lykke E. Andersen was recognized by INESAD for written the most read Blog in the INESAD’s web in the last 6 months of 2016. The name of the blogs is: Does Education Pay in Bolivia? The award was in INESAD offices, over the Lykke birthday celebration. They …

On September 29th realized the workshop “Labor situation of Bolivia: Main Facts Stylized” promoted by the Institute for Advances Studies Development and the Bolivian Academy of Economics Science (ABCE).

La Dra. Beatriz Muriel, Investigadora Senior de la Fundación INESAD y coordinadora de la Red EMINPRO, participó en el panel de discusión de la presentación del libro “Más  Habilidades para el Trabajo y la Vida: los Aportes de la Familia, la Escuela, el Entorno y el Mundo Laboral”  elaborado por …

The Sixth Economics Research Workshop was held on September 7 at the Postgraduate Auditorium of the Universidad Privada Boliviana (UPB). On this occasion, Dr. Juan Antonio Morales, Ph. D. [Universidad Católica Boliviana, UCB – Academia Boliviana de Ciencias Económicas, ABCE) presented the paper: “Monetary Policy transmission mechanisms in low financial …

Susana del Granado, Anna Stewart, Mercy Borbor, Carol Franco, Erica Tauzer, Moory Romero Resumen Los países de América Latina y el Caribe estan afectados por eventos climáticos extremos. En República Dominicana, Ecuador y Bolivia existe un incremento en el riesgo a sucesos extremos en general y a inundaciones en particular. …

La noche del jueves 18 de agosto, la Fundación de Apoyo al Parlamento y a la Participación (FUNDAPPAC), la Fundación Konrad Adenauer y el Colegio de Economistas de La Paz realizaron el Foro Económico “PERSPECTIVAS, DESAFÍOS Y ROL DEL ESTADO ‘Hacia dónde va nuestra economía, en el contexto de la …

What to do about international migration By: Lykke E. Andersen Inequality is becoming an increasingly concerning issue and recently 176 countries agreed that one of the Sustainable Development Goals for the next 15 years should be to “reduce inequality within and among countries.” One of the specific targets associated with …

El libro “Southern Perspectives on the Post-2015 International Development Agenda” incluirá como uno de sus capítulos una versión resumida del working paper No 06/2015 “Social institutions and gender inequality in fragile states: are they relevant for the post-MDG debate?”,  escrito por Boris Branisa, Investigador senior de la Fundación INESAD (Instituto …

  The Fifth Economics Research Workshop, organized by the Universidad Privada Boliviana (UPB), the Bolivian Society of Economists (SEBOL) and the INESAD Foundation, was held on August 3 at the UPB’s Postgraduate Auditorium. On this occasion, Joaquín Morales Belpaire, Ph.D. presented the document: “Advocacy NGO’s“, also written by Elena Serfilippi. …

The INESAD Working Paper No 08/2014 ““Gender and Climate Change in Latin America: An analysis of vulnerability, adaptation and resilience based on household surveys”” has been accepted for publication by The Journal of International Development. The paper analyzes gender differences in vulnerability and resilience to shocks, including climate change and climate variability, …