Bolivia's green national accounts through a commodity super cycle

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This paper calculates and analyzes key indicators from Bolivia's Green National Accounts during the period 1990 - 2015, which covers an entire Commodity Super Cycle. The first half includes the Great Commodities Depression while the second half of the period is characterized by an unprecedented commodities boom. We show that the contribution of ecosystem goods and services to the Bolivian economy remain relatively stable over the cycle, while the contribution of non-renewable resources increases by a factor of four between the bottom of the cycle (1993) and the top of the cycle (2011). Similarly, the differences between Net Capital Formation and Environmentally-adjusted Net Capital formation is small at the bottom of the Commodity Super Cycle (2.3% of GDP) but much larger at the top of the cycle (7.7% of GDP).

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• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Development Research Working Paper Series ; No. 05/2017

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth ; Sustainable Development ; Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development ; Valuation of Environmental Effects
• Subject: Green Accounting ; Natural Resource Rents ; Bolivia

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Jemio, Luis Carlos ; Andersen, Lykke E. ; Medinaceli, Agnes
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for Advanced Development Studies (INESAD)
• (where): La Paz
• (when): 2017

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/177361