These days we are witnessing the struggle of a Bolivian indigenous group fighting for their rights and territory, failed Judiciary “elections”. In this post I intend to look at another important issue: entrepreneurship as a means to overcome poverty.

The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), has as its goal to make high quality information on global entrepreneurial, as such they just released a study where Bolivia is mentioned.

Please take a look at the following chart for Bolivia placement under this study:

Factor driven condition is explained below:

For more information about GEM, please use this link (where you can download the whole document): http://www.gemconsortium.org/default.aspx

La Razon reports on this issue: Bolivia has one of the largest entrepreneurial population in the world, but only 25% of this Bolivian population had received a training; although most of it was obtained on a voluntary and empirical basis.  GEM’s study highlights lack of public policies, governmental programs, research and development transfers, and financing to those entrepreneurs who —on average— are 32 years old and a majority of them ar women.

http://www.la-razon.com/version.php?ArticleId=139659&EditionId=2690

So, it is clear that Bolivian citizens are struggling to become more competitive, and that in this times of social unrest, is something to keep in mind and look for better ways to help them, as they will help us.