Abstract

BAZZACO, EDOARDO. HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IN SANTA CRUZ (BOLIVIA): TERRITORIAL INEQUITIES AND THE NEGATIVE EFFECT OF THE ECONOMIC COMPONENT. Investig. desarro. [online]. 2009, vol.17, n.1, pp.172-191. ISSN 0121-3261.

The analysis of the Human Development Index of the municipalities of the Department of Santa Cruzpermits us to make a connection between the developmental evolution of this department and the one of the rest of Bolivia, as well as with the economic factors conditioning Bolivia's development trends. In this sense, the department reproduced and amplified not only the economic cycle of the country, but also its patterns of human development: the HDI shows that there is a strong gap between a weak economic indicator and high scores in basic indicators of education and health. The HDI scores, the imbalances between its different components (i.e. economic variables, education indicators and life expectancy at birth), and the negative correlations between poverty indicators and the degree of municipal urbanization, demonstrate the existence of important internal asymmetries in the department. They also permit us to generate some insights with regard to the sustainability of the development process in this department.

Keywords : Bolivia; human development; sustainability.

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