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How Does The Market Economy Affect The Bolivian Economy
I think you mentioned all the points that made "market economy" unfair to Boilivia Kayla, for any country to have a strong market economy, it cant depend mostly on on illegal drugs or solely on one product to survive in the long run it has to diversify. The bolivian economy strongly represents this fact. Cocaine certainly plagued the Bolivian economy and helped make market economy biased to the nation. In relations to what you said about most men moving to go work at the chapare, That on ots own had a major negative result because at the chapare were men went to work to make money, they did not actually work in the cocoa fields because not much labor was need to pick up the cocoa. Finaly, the cocaine benefited the elites only it enriched

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