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The reform fatigue is not limited to Bolivia. See Lora et al. (2003) for an overview of trends in the attitudes towards structural reforms of policymakers, opinion leaders, and the public at large in Latin America.
To come full circle, cross-country regressions by Deininger and Olinto (2000) suggest that high asset inequality—but not high income inequality—is harmful to economic growth.
The impact of female education on fertility is well documented in Bolivia. Women with more than 12 years of schooling have only 1.9 children, compared to 6.7 for (the by now very few) females with no education (INE 2003). As concerns the education of women, Bolivia has made considerable progress in recent years. In 2001, the gap in literacy between men and women had narrowed to 12 percentage points (with the remaining gap being largely due to past discrimination), and gaps in enrolments or progression are now limited to a few pockets in more remote municipalities (Andersen and Molina 2004).
Gundlach et al. (2004) show that only after controlling for international differences in schooling quality does education improve the income distribution and allow the poor to benefit disproportionately from economic growth.
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(2006). Summary and Implications for Economic Policy. In: Poverty and Inequality in the Era of Structural Reforms: The Case of Bolivia. Kieler Studien - Kiel Studies, vol 336. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-37649-6_4
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