Several reports point out that in recent years the social indexes of Bolivia have improved significantly. According to the local Stats office in 2009, 26.1% of Bolivians lived in extreme poverty ...

The country is also among the world’s poorest. Nearly 40% of Bolivia's people live in poverty – and that rate increases dramatically in vulnerable communities. Hunger, chronic malnutrition, natural ...

After the commodity boom ended in 2014, Bolivia resorted to high public spending and growing ... plunging the economy into a recession that led to a rebound in poverty.

Second, that by exploiting its lithium reserves, the government of Bolivia—where 40 percent of the people live in poverty—envisions a pathway out of its cul-de-sac of misfortune. And third ...

Bolivia's former leader Evo Morales launched his fourth presidential bid on Thursday, ignoring the constitution, which only allows three terms in office. Morales, who was Bolivia's first-ever ...

In the three cases where national poverty rates declined (Bolivia, Guatemala, and Mexico), the rate for indigenous peoples registered a smaller decline, or none at all. In Ecuador and Peru, overall ...

Poverty rates declined significantly in Asia (Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka); in Latin America, urban poverty increased in Bolivia––mainly because of the migration of rural poor to urban ...

Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru; Southern Cone: Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. Brazil and Mexico, the two most populous countries in the region, are reported separately. The Poverty and ...