"Intelligent analysis of poverty and income distribution in Bolivia during late 1980s-early 1990s. Includes simulations of the evolution of poverty under different future growth scenarios. Poverty rates fell between 1989-92 among all socioeconomic strata, but income distribution worsened because...

This paper analyses the privatization of utilities in Bolivia, detailing the particularities of the capitalization mechanism which was used for this purpose. The analysis suggests that capitalization and regulation, and the liberalization of the utilities sector more generally, succeeded in...