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 ...

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.

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.

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 hopes to do things differently. Centuries of exporting mineral resources and more recently oil and gas have failed to lift Bolivia's 8.7 million people out of poverty. Two thirds of its ...

Bolivia’s wild politics are dragging it into the abyss An interview with Evo Morales in his tropical highland stronghold. ... The share of people living in poverty fell from 61% to 37%.

Bolivia increased its sovereignty over economic policy; social spending increased by 45 percent from 2005-2012 and poverty was reduced by 25 percent from 2005-2011.

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%.

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 ...