Why Commodity Booms Have Not (Yet?) Boosted Human Capital: Bolivia's Struggle to Create a Skilled Workforce.

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Autor/Urheber	Fritz Brugger; Kathlen Lizárraga Zamora
Institution	Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement
Titel	Why Commodity Booms Have Not (Yet?) Boosted Human Capital: Bolivia's Struggle to Create a Skilled Workforce.
Quelle	In: Revue Internationale de Politique de Développement, Iss 5 (2014)(2014) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei
Sprache	englisch; französisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
DOI	10.4000/poldev.1779
Schlagwörter	policy coherence; economic \| development history; public expenditure; commodities; education; youth; training; skills; vocational education; labour market; data; human rights; Bolivia; J; Economic growth; development; planning; HD72-88
Abstract	Do windfalls from the extractive sector help developing countries invest in human capital? To date, empirical studies remain inconclusive. Using Bolivia as a case study, this chapter examines the specific political-economic dynamics that led the country to increase spending on education yet at the same time failed to build a skilled workforce. Overall, the study finds that while the mining sector continued to seek unskilled, cheap labour, the capital-intensive hydrocarbon sector, for its part, developed on-the-job training programmes. Meanwhile, education policies failed to anticipate evolving demand from the labour market. As a result, vocational training suffered, a situation further compounded by efforts of powerful groups in the education sector to protect their own, somewhat narrow interests, at the expense of educational achievements. It concludes that the rise of private education and popular skills-based training programmes cannot substitute for development of a functional vocational training system, capable of supporting the country's ambition to develop a world-class lithium processing industry with linkages in strategic sectors.
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