TITLE: Trade, FDI, Growth and Poverty in Bolivia

AUTHORS: Lykke E. Andersen & Osvaldo Nina & Dirk Willem te Velde

DATE: July 2004

ABSTRACT:  

After several decades of “state-capitalism” characterized by import substitution policies, Bolivia implemented in 1985 a New Economic Policy (NEP) following neo-liberal ideas of free trade, privatization, and liberalization of capital flows. It was hoped that the opening up of the economy would attract foreign direct investment (FDI) which in turn would help modernize Bolivian industry, improve productivity, increase exports, stimulate growth, and reduce poverty. This paper investigates to what extent this actually happened.

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