ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the four types of economic organisation whose forms differ from state-owned companies and privately owned businesses: peasant economic organisations (OECA), community economic organisations (OECOM), artisans’ associations and cooperatives. It focuses on factors that intensify economic actors’ inability to connect and take forward a common agenda for a legal and public-policy framework to promote the plural economy. OECOMs are part of the community autonomous governments, which have been a very important political actor in Bolivian history. The Bolivian economy’s plurality has long been the subject of analysis and debate in the country, due to the persistence and coexistence of economic units whose forms of ownership, governance structure, labour relations and objectives differ from those of capitalist enterprises and from the public sector. The new government promoted state-owned enterprises and the business sector supported privately owned enterprises through various laws.
