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Table 8 Information used in Sect. 3

From: Skills versus Luck: Bolivia and its recent Bonanza

Variable (source)

Unit

External debt stock (WDI)

% of GNI

Financial Freedom (HER)

Index

GDP per capita, PPP (WDI)

PPP (constant 2011 international US$)

Inflation (WDI)

Annual CPI inflation (%)

Investment freedom (HER)

Index

Labor freedom (HER)

Index

Net barter terms of trade (WDI)

X/M unit value indexes relative to 2000

Overall freedom (HER)

Index

Property rights (HER)

Index

Share of gov. expenditures (WDI)

% of GDP

Tax revenue (WDI)

% of GDP

Taxes on international trade (WDI)

% of revenue

  1. WDI, World Development Indicators (The World Bank, 2016); PWT, Penn World Table v9.0 (Feenstra et al. 2015); HER, The Heritage Foundation (2017). All the Heritage Foundations indexes range from 0 (not free) to 100 (free)