#201 Reviewing Bolivia's Economic Transformation
By Jorge Quiroga and Fernando Campero
From the Preface
The debate swirling around the impact of structural adjustment, free trade initiatives, and economic reform on democratic government is generally reserved for countries such as Chile and Mexico--the "success" stories--or Peru and Brazil. The lack of attention paid to Bolivia, by policymakers and scholars alike, misses the radical economic change its government initiated in 1985 as well as the political difficulties with which Bolivianos are presently confronted.
On July 15, 1992, in one of the best attended events of the year, the Latin American Program brought together two Bolivian government ministers with leading U.S. economists to discuss the country's radical economic reform program and the political changes that have accompanied it.
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