Changing poverty distribution in Bolivia: the role of rural–urban migration and urban services |
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| Authors: | Greg O’Hare Sara Rivas |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Geography, University of Derby, Kedleston Road, Allestree, Derby, Derbyshire, DE22 1GB, UK;(2) Universidad Mayor de San Andres, La Paz, Bolivia |
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| Abstract: | Bolivia is a country with high levels of poverty and inequality among its peoples and regions. For the nation and its urban
and rural areas, trends in the social and spatial distribution of poverty (and extreme poverty) are identified from 1976 to
2003 using UBN data with minor support where appropriate from poverty lines. The main survey between 1992 and 2001 uses composite
and selected UBN to track detailed poverty change for the country’s nine departments, its ten largest cities and a selection
of other smaller urban and rural municipalities. Because of rising background increases in population in the various surveyed
administrative units, many instances of relative reductions in poverty are accompanied by rising absolute increases. Marked
spatial variations in poverty and development in the country over the last several decades are identified as the main driver
for the country’s quickening pace of rural–urban migration. As a result, the paper concludes by assessing two different but
closely related views. One investigation tests the notion that because more poor people have been living in Bolivia’s cities
than in its rural areas since the mid to late 1990s, rapid rural–urban migration has simply shifted the locus of poverty from
the countryside to the cities in a process called, the ‘urbanisation of poverty.’ A second, more challenging, investigation
assesses the view that the flow of poor rural people to the better serviced urban areas of Bolivia has actually acted to alleviate
national poverty levels. |
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| Keywords: | Poverty measurement Basic needs Migration Urbanisation of poverty Poverty alleviation |
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