Between reform and inertia: Bolivia's employment and social protection policies over the past 20 years |
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Authors: | Fernanda WANDERLEY |
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Affiliation: | Researcher, Postgraduate Institute for Development Studies, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (CIDES‐UMSA), La Paz, emails: fernandawanderley@cides.edu.bo and wanderleyfernanda@hotmail.com. |
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Abstract: | With the coming to power in 2006 of Evo Morales' Movement Toward Socialism, Bolivia entered a new stage in its history: a period of ambitious political and economic reform aiming to transcend the neo‐liberal development model in place since 1985 and to renew the State on the basis of its new Constitution, drawn up in 2008. Against this background, this article examines changes in labour law and social protection during the 1980s and 1990s and takes stock of the challenges of implementing a development strategy focusing on full employment and equity. |
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Keywords: | unemployment labour flexibility social policy social security reform pension scheme poverty alleviation Bolivia |
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