Talk:Economy of Bolivia

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The content of this page is based almost exclusively upon Federal U.S. government (including CIA) sources. It is no stretch to imagine an enormous bias in such a source, given the extensive involvement (both covert and public) of various U.S. administrations in Bolivia. In particular, this article seems blatantly slanted towards a very subjective positive portrayal of the free-market experiment in Bolivia, whereas such a portrayal is in reality hotly contested (see Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine, for instance). In light of this, I think this article is unreasonably biased and requires (1) more objective reference sources, and (2) a more balanced representation. Typically (talk) 13:41, 14 September 2008 (UTC)


 * It also seems that the last 4 years have been purposely omitted, mentioning only an increase in the coca crops. -- Juan Pablo de la Torre (talk) 20:04, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Bolivian lithium
The short article Bolivian lithium can usefully be merged here, and this larger article will allow the lithoum issue to be placed in context. -- ArglebargleIV (talk) 23:42, 11 March 2009 (UTC) bolivia has a large population not a small but the country is poor —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.107.139.86 (talk) 00:19, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

terribly out of date and several glaring discrepancies.
This article cites a number of facts and dates but i believe every single one is from before 2006 (excluding infobox and statistics section) and most are 2002 and 2001. No mention whatever is made of the recent program of nationalization which has included telecoms, oil and gas, electricity, and a number of other commodities. Pres. Morales' other economic initiatives, notably controlling the markets for energy and food have had profound impacts, which unfortunately I do not feel competent to summarize in an encyclopedic manner. Bolivia's growth rate has also increased from the averages noted in the article. even counting 2009 (basically no growth) GDP growth has averaged 4%/year since 2005 and many expect it to exceed that in 2010. I have added the out of date template to the top of the page.

Also, the Background section says the gdp in 2002 was $9billion, then in the Macroeconomy section it is claimed it was ~$22billion, then in the infobox and in the statistics section the current gdp is around $45billion. 2 of these three numbers are clearly false. This was clearly a well-researched and, IMO, well-written article back in 2002/2003 but it needs a serious rewrite to bring it up to date. -- Jieagles (talk) 21:48, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

The document is terrible out of date. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.112.217.18 (talk) 18:17, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I agree. The structure of the article is a mess (as mentioned above, three different values for the GDP in one article is caused by this unlogical structure). I cleaned up the article a bit. I tried to restructure it along the lines of other "Economy of ..." articles with at least a "B"-class status. I don't know if there is a standard structure for this kind of articles, but if there is I guess this gets really close.
 * I saw that in the last year a lot of numbers were updated, in order to fix up the outdated content, but still the main source for the article is some US Government report from 2006. I'm no economist, so I hope there will be someone with more expertise around to review the content. J.D. Hooijberg (talk) 18:56, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I am coming to this talk page a decade after people editors were observing that it is out of date...and it is still out of date although I also have made some improvements. The labor and employment section in particular is still a problem. I will try and do more in the future to help bring this up to date as well. JArthur1984 (talk) 19:22, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

External link to tariff data
Hello everyone, I am working for the International Trade Centre (ITC), a UN/WTO agency that aims to promote sustainable economic development through trade promotion. I would like to propose the addition of an external link (http://www.macmap.org/QuickSearch/FindTariff/FindTariff.aspx?subsite=open_access&country=068&source=1|ITC) that leads directly to our online database of customs tariffs applied by Bolivia. Visitors can easily look up market access information for Bolivia by selecting the product and partner of their interest. I would like you to consider this link under the WP:ELYES #3 prescriptions. Moreover, the reliability and the pertinence of this link can be supported by the following facts 1) ITC is part of the United Nations, and aims to share trade and market access data on by country and product as a global public good 2) No registration is required to access this information 3) Market access data (Tariffs and non-tariff measures) are regularly updated

Thank you, Divoc (talk) 08:39, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

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Out of context and misleading statement in opening paragraph.
In the opening section this quote appears:

"In recent history, Bolivia has consistently led Latin America in measures of economic growth, fiscal stability and foreign reserves"

I think this may be out of context from the source with says, "Unlike any time in recent history, Bolivia has consistently led Latin America in measures of economic growth, fiscal stability and foreign reserves. Plenty has flowed into coffers of gas companies as well." The context of this quote is the short term boom from gas, rather than a long term economic success. Indeed, it specifically says that this growth is "Unlike recent history".

In fact, Bolivia still ranks close to the bottom in most indices of the size or success of the economy, when compared with its neigbbours. This sentence doesn't give that impression. Zeimusu | Talk page 13:35, 5 March 2023 (UTC)


 * This is not a contradiction or dubious, but we can make it more clear.
 * The fact is that Bolivia historically has been, and remains, a poor country but it's most recent economic performance has been superior compared to the region. It obviously has much room to make up.
 * The quote does not seem to be about a short-term boom as Bolivia's resources are an ongoing cause of growth. JArthur1984 (talk) 16:30, 5 March 2023 (UTC)