Bolivia

Abstract

Bolivia is one of the poorest countries in Latin America and suffers from widespread income inequality and unemployment. This chapter evaluates how Bolivia's households would be affected by multilateral trade reforms arising from the Doha Round. Besides the probable impacts on commodity prices and quantities, including export quantities, these reforms are likely to augment the demand for labor. Thus we evaluate the income that subsistence producers would gain by switching into wage employment in agriculture and the income that urban households would gain from an expansion of labor demand in the manufacturing sector. Copyright © 2007 center for the study of globalization, yale university and groupe d'economie mondiale, sciences po All rights reserved.