In this case, the president of Bolivia, and team officials grapple with questions of how to create a model for the privatization of some state enterprises. In 1980, Bolivia, as in most other Latin American countries, embraced a more market-oriented development strategy, which requires less state intervention in the economy and focus more on the most important tasks of the government. In the event that privatization is high on the political agenda of leadership in large part because it is "unfinished business" of neo-liberal economic reform program, which was first adopted in 1985. In addition, the president has some specific goals he wants to achieve in the process of privatization, such as the removal of a major source of corruption in the public sector and to respond to the problems of poverty and inequality in the country. HKS Case Number 1447.0 "Hide
by Jose Gomez-Ibanez, Meredith D. Pearson, Merilee Grindle 18 pages. Publication Date: January 1, 1998. Prod. #: HKS137-PDF-ENG
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