Bolivia: Staff Report for the 1999 Article IV Consultation and Request for Second Annual Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility
IMF Staff Country Reports, March 15, 2000
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- Published: March 15, 2000
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451805710.002
Macroeconomic stability and structural reforms
- A considerable degree of macroeconomic stability was achieved by Bolivia.
- Steadfast implementation of structural reforms removed most of the distortions that adversely affected the economy in the early 1980s.
Poverty reduction commitment
- The Bolivian authorities are committed to fighting poverty.
Labor regulation reform and external competitiveness
- Executive Directors urged the authorities to proceed decisively with the envisaged reform of labor regulations in 2000 to:
- enhance external competitiveness,
- make Bolivia’s regulations compliant with the norms of the International Labor Organization,
- broaden the coverage of the formal economy.
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- Date: March 15, 2000
- Pages: 83
- Volume: 2000
- Issue: 040
- Series: Country Report No. 2000/040
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451805710.002
- Stock No: 1BOLEA0022000
- ISBN: 9781451805710
- ISSN: 1934-7685
- Subject: Balance of payments, Banking, Current account deficits, Economic sectors, Imports, International trade, Labor, Macrostructural analysis, Public debt, Public sector, Structural reforms
- Keywords: balance of payments reason, Bolivia's program, CR, Current account deficits, Imports, ISCR, payments agreement, Public sector, request of Bolivia, sc, Structural reforms, trustee, trustee requests consultation
Source: Bolivia: Staff Report for the 1999 Article IV Consultation and Request for Second Annual Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (IMF Staff Country Reports).