Bolivia: Ex-Post Assessment of Longer-Term Program Engagement
April 20, 2005
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This paper presents key findings of the Ex Post Assessment of Longer-Term Program Engagement for Bolivia. Bolivia is a country that is perceived as having one of the best structural reform records in Latin America but experienced sluggish per capita growth, and made virtually no progress in reducing income-based poverty measures. The paper presents a summary account of Bolivia’s performance under IMF-supported programs. It emphasizes that to address Bolivia’s main economic problems—insufficient growth, and fiscal and financial fragility—a new medium-term program should be focused on fundamental institutional and structural reforms.
Subject: Banking, Economic sectors, Expenditure, Financial regulation and supervision, Financial sector, Financial sector reform, Macrostructural analysis, Pension reform, Public debt, Structural reforms
Keywords: assessment, Bolivia, CR, Financial sector, Financial sector reform, financial situation, IMF Executive Board reviews Bolivia's performance, IMF's effort, IMF's view, ISCR, Pension reform, per capita income, Structural reforms, trend growth, U.S. dollar
Pages:
56
Volume:
2005
DOI:
Issue:
139
Series:
Country Report No. 2005/139
Stock No:
1BOLEA2005001
ISBN:
9781451970500
ISSN:
1934-7685
