Abstract
Bolivia is essentially a mining country, yet the quality of the country’s mineral deposits has declined rapidly over recent decades owing to the absence of new investments in technology, exploration, development, and production. The lodes are of poor quality and are generally exploited with primitive technology and labor-intensive practices. To revive the mining sector, the Bolivian government commissioned the Harvard Institute for International Development in 1975 to undertake a thorough study of the entire mining industry and to make proposals for its rehabilitation. The study, carried out over 9 months, covered production, concentration, transportation, and marketing facilities in both the state-owned and the private sector. These efforts culminated in a report entitled Taxation and the Mining Sector in Bolivia, submitted to the Ministry of Mining and Metallurgy in 1975. © 1989 by Taylor & Francis.