Talk:Bolivia and the International Monetary Fund

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 1 October 2019 and 14 December 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Ericcabaniss, Gonzalezmwalter. Peer reviewers: Elitovar, Na0umi1901.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 18:13, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Using you as example
Sorry dude Bergmanucsd (talk) 02:48, 4 December 2019 (UTC)bergmanucsdBergmanucsd (talk) 02:48, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

Eli -Late 70's -80's: you mention that the IMF "pulled out" because it did not Bolivia was strong enough to enforce changes. Isn't it the IMF's job to interfere when countries DON'T have the financial resources? Maybe adding a little clarity to this? How is this situation different from the IMF essentially bailing out a country?

Eli-IMF intervention and reforms: who opposed the IMF plans? maybe adding an external link on "opposition" so people can learn more

Eli- The chronological order makes it clear, easy to read, and understand!:)

Eli - it would be very interesting to have an external link for "Effects on People".

eli- another external link for "Strategy of reforms" addressing the judiciary branch would also be insightful. It will highlight the importance of the Bolivian Government commitment to improving the economy and may also reveal how corruption affects the economy.

eli- the references i think have to be cited "properly", i dont think just links are sufficient. ( i need to fix this too...) any citation method is acceptable

translator/editor notes
This came to my attention because it got tagged as needing hyperlinks. I am wikilinking basic concepts like income, revenue, GDP and so on, and may initially miss some first references. I am still reviewing hyperlinks.

I did not know the article is part of a class, and I can't tell if the editor considers it finished. The references are good but this article has a sort of defensive tone overall, like the first part was written by the IMF and the second by sombody in the Morales government. You can avoid this with further detail, and avoiding the use of "struggle" or "battle", because they are both a bit dramatic for wikipedia. Also, I cannot tell if this means Bolivia found it difficult to repay the loans, or that it was striving and working hard for prosperity. I do not know the history of Bolivia well enough to fix this. Somebody should.

I cleaned up some erroneous definite articles. Whereas Romance languages use definite articles ("les" for example in the one I speak best, French) to denote "some" ('les gens", people), in English the word alone is used ("people", "politicians"). In English is you put "the" in front of a word like people, it means *specific* people. Apart from that common and minor translation issue, I did flag the article for npov. The specific reason, which I discussed a little above, was that parts of it presented the loans as the best thing that ever happened to Bolivia, to the point that I wondered if it was written by the IMF. I specifically question the word "liberalize", which is frquently used to mean to mean doing away with pesky regulations and tariffs or worse.

A couple of things I wondered:
 * did (does) Bolivia have a plantation economy or was it more pampas? Mining?
 * Why, specifically did it wind up owing so much money?
 * Also, did it have anything to do with the road construction that was going on in Brazil? Operation Car Wash?
 * Does deforestation play into this?

PS: Economy of South America needs help, anybody. Elinruby (talk) 18:49, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

needs update
Does not reflect the recent change in power in Bolivia, and there is a tone there. Wording that is of its era. Elinruby (talk) 22:20, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

Neutrality tag
The article looks like it was written by an IMF promoter. It lacks the perspective of critics of the IMF intervention in Bolivia, which shouldn't be hard to find as Bolivia's had an anti-IMF government from 2005 to 2019. Mottezen (talk) 22:34, 17 June 2020 (UTC)