Stabilization without Inclusive Development: Neoliberalism, Economic Liberalization, Poverty, and Inequality in Bolivia
稳定化未带来包容性发展:玻利维亚自由化、贫困与不平等
This article reconstructs the economic and social history of Bolivian neoliberalism and evaluates whether economic liberalization reduced or increased poverty and inequality in Bolivia. The historical argument is that the Bolivian neoliberal cycle was not a single event but a layered sequence: hyperinflation and emergency stabilization, the 1985 New Economic Policy, labor displacement and mining restructuring, second-generation reform in the 1990s, capitalization,…