in 2011, according to government data collected by the U.N.41 Bolivia’s record, under the presidency of Evo Morales, is also impressive. It has reduced the proportion of its population living in extreme poverty from 38 percent in 2005 to 21.6 percent in 2012, according to government figures.42 And unemployment rates have been cut in half. Most importantly, while other developing countries have used growth to create societies of big winners and big losers, Bolivia is actually succeeding in building a more equal society. Alicia Bárcena Ibarra, executive secretary of the U.N. Economic Commission
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