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Bolivia: Slow But Steady Progress

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...no education. Debt service drains nearly one third of the country's income. El Alto, outside of La Paz, a former squatter settlement of rural migrants, is today one of the fastest growing cities in South America. In the 1980s, as a result of the government's drive to cut public expenditure and nationalize many state-owned companies, a steady stream of migrants turned into a flood; thousands of miners were made unnecessary and subsistence farmers, faced with increasing competition from cheap foreign import crops, and no longer able to eke out a living from their fields, they came to El Alto - full of expectations, hoping for a chance to secure work and a better education for their children. However, their dreams have been left unfulfilled. Health and sanitary conditions are miserable, yet overall, without education there is no escape from poverty(Lockwood ppg) Health In general, the state of health of the Bolivian people is still very precarious, with marked inequalities, although the last 16 years have seen changes, with progress in such indicators as life expectancy and mortality. At present, Bolivians can expect to live, on average, up to the...

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