Food security is a priority in Bolivia and plays a key role in fighting poverty and in promoting opportunities for all. And, experts say, the most effective step to guarantee such security is by ...

Seven in ten people live below the poverty line in many countries in the region - including Bolivia, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay and Peru. Add it all up and the figures show that 65 ...

Bolivia has the highest rural poverty rate in the world — 94 percent of rural Bolivians live below subsistence level. In 1,000 live births, 39 women will lose their lives.

Poverty in Bolivia has been more than halved from 47.20 to 15.60 during Morales’ term in office. Life expectancy has also risen from 64 to 68 years during this period.

Nearly 40% of Bolivia's people live in poverty – and that rate increases dramatically in vulnerable communities. Hunger, chronic malnutrition, natural disasters and lack of education plague many ...

Bolivia, for example, has cut the number of people living in extreme poverty from 37 percent to 19 percent in less than a decade due in large part to increased natural gas exports under President ...

Bolivia's Socialist reformist administration aims to cut budget deficit from 3.1% of gross domestic product, (approximately 270 million US dollars) to 2.1% and lower unemployment from 8.4 to 4%.

Two years ago, the MAS boasted that Bolivia’s inflation was the lowest in the region. Now it is among the highest. In response, the government is being pulled in two directions at once.

For subsistence farmers in Potosi - one of poorest regions in South America's poorest country - severe environmental degradation and extreme poverty have become integral parts of everyday life ...