Pagina Siete reports via hoybolivia.com: Exports fall further and trade deficit soars The value of domestic exports until July continued its downward trend and decreased by 26% compared to 2015, while the trade deficit soared, according to the National Statistics Institute (INE). The figures show that in the first seven months of last year sales…
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BME and BBV start up Bolivia Stock Exchange’s trading platform
BME reports in Finextra.com: BME and BBV start up Bolivia Stock Exchange’s trading platform Bolsa Boliviana de Valores (BBV) and BME have started up a new trading platform for the Latin American venue as part of the market’s upgrade. The new IT system, called SMART BBV, was designed and developed by BME and supports several…
The manufacturing sector expressed discontent with the MAS, for the wrong reasons!
El Dia reports: The manufacturing sector expressed discontent with the MAS Factory workers dismiss the MAS as an instrument of defense of labor rights and discuss the formation of a political party for 2019 to the mistreatment received by the Government in recent years. That possibility and other issues are discussed in a national expanded…
Bolivia Aims to Boost Mining Oversight After Deadly Protests
Ryan Dube reports for The Wall Street Journal: Bolivia Aims to Boost Mining Oversight After Deadly Protests Cabinet of President Evo Morales approves measures that would increase regulation, ban use of dynamite in demonstrations. Bolivia’s government on Thursday moved to increase control over mining cooperatives in the wake of violent protests that resulted in the…
Drought: CEPB says that lacked seriousness in decrees
ANF reports in Los Tiempos: Drought: CEPB says that lacked seriousness in decrees After nearly a month of the approval of 12 decrees issued by President Evo Morales to address the effects of drought, the Confederation of Private Entrepreneurs of Bolivia (CEPB) described them as “unserious” and “irrelevant”. Warned that failure to take serious action…
Latin America’s Best Female Chef 2016 works in Bolivia!
The World’s 50 Best reports: Latin America’s Best Female Chef 2016 Kamilla Seidler, Gustu, Bolivia Danish chef on a mission to champion Bolivian cuisine When people meet Kamilla Seidler for the first time, they’re often baffled: who is this pale-skinned, blonde-haired Danish woman with perfect Spanish at the helm of Bolivia’s No.1 restaurant? But the…
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