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  2. Inequality in Bolivia - Wikipedia

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    The World Bank's Gini coefficient indicates that income inequality in Bolivia, estimated on the basis of size-adjusted household data, increased by almost ten percentage points between 1992 (49.1) and 1997 (58.2), where a value of 100 percent corresponds to the maximum income inequality and a value of zero percent to the minimum.

  3. Economy of Bolivia - Wikipedia

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    The economy of Bolivia is the 95th-largest in the world in nominal terms and the 87th-largest in ... The poverty rate declined from 22.23% in 2000 to 12.38% in ...

  4. List of countries by percentage of population living in poverty

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    As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions." [11] "National poverty headcount ratio is the percentage of the population living below the national poverty line(s). National estimates are based on population-weighted subgroup estimates ...

  5. Poverty in South America - Wikipedia

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    Bolivia was one of the poorest countries in South America, but between 2006 and 2014, GDP per capita doubled and the extreme poverty rate declined from 38 to 18%. [21] This represents a great improvement in comparison to the situation by 2005, diminishing poverty from 59.6% to 38.6% in a decade. [22]

  6. Poverty in Bolivia - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 22 January 2019, at 22:37 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  7. National Institute of Statistics of Bolivia - Wikipedia

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    The Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Bolivia or National Institute of Statistics of Bolivia is a branch of the Government of Bolivia which specifically collects factual data in the country of Bolivia in South America. The Institute compiles statistics ranging from the area of its provinces and municipalities to population structure, and ...

  8. Prisoners of Profit - The Huffington Post

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    A 2010 lawsuit from the Southern Poverty Law Center referred to youth who described Thompson Academy as a “frightening and violent place” where juveniles were denied medical care when abused. “Children are choked and slammed head first into concrete walls, their arms and fingers are bent back and twisted to inflict pain for infractions as ...

  9. Child labor in Bolivia - Wikipedia

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    Bolivia is one of the poorest countries in South America, with 45% of its population living below the poverty line. [11] Poverty is a major cause of child labor in Bolivia, and children from poor families work in order to support the well-being of their families and to supply their basic needs of survival. [12]