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This 6 page paper tracks the progress of health, education, socio-economic and politic conditions between the census years of 1976 and 1994. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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In Bolivia one million children get no education. Debt service drains nearly one third of the countrys 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 governments 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
age of 61, whereas during the period 1975-1980 their life expectancy was only 48 (UNIH Core Document). Bolivia has one
of the highest maternal mortality rates in Latin America with 480 deaths per 100,000 live births. Of these deaths 46.6 per cent occur during pregnancy, often as a result
of complications following an induced abortion, 28 per cent in childbirth and 25.4 per cent after delivery. However infant mortality has declined fifty percent. Educational progress
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