Bolivia needs to improve fast! we are currently in the 104 out of 144 countries, long way back from competitiveness that we need to fight poverty, corruption and bad politics. Los Tiempos reports, only excerpts are included that pertain to Bolivia, will be placed below next to the excerpts and further down some graphs from…
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Ivan Guzman de Rojas, the genius of the translation
An intelligence and vision which fills us with pride, Iván Guzmán de Rojas belongs to The Hall of Bolivian Fame!! Amancaya Finkel writes for Pagina Siete: Iván Guzmán de Rojas, the genius of the translation LANGUAGES in the 1980s, this engineer, physicist and mathematician created the multilingual translator computerized Atamiri based on the Aymara language. Even…
Santa Cruz proves it one more time! WE PRODUCE, WE WORK!!!
This news proves, one more time that people in Santa Cruz do work! Written by Henrry Ugarte from El Deber: 50% of the harvest exceeded and call quickly to export sugar Guabirá and Unagro fear that ‘over stocking’ may affect Sugar mills Guabirá and Unagro exceeded half of the 2012 harvest and, in both cases,…
Moody’s: Bolivia’s New Foreign Exchange Tax Is Credit Negative for Banks
From WSJ, by Arran Scott SINGAPORE–A move by Bolivia to tax foreign exchange transactions to enforce de-dollarization policies will undercut the credit health of local banks, Moody’s Investors Service said Monday. The Bolivian House of Representatives last Tuesday passed a bill to tax all foreign exchange transactions with a 0.7% levy for 36 months, Moody’s…
Bolivian government spends nine million dollars in propaganda…
El Dia reports [from Erbol]: In seven months exceeded the figure of 2011 Government spends $9 million in propaganda Monitoring. Doble N and Publimarket are companies that show the increase in expenses. The data offered by the companies of monitoring advertising and propaganda, Doble N and Publimarket reveal that the national Government spent, in 2011,…
Could the relations between the central gov and the private sector improve? I certainly hope so!
The following Los Tiempos editorial brings some hope to our ability to generate jobs and provide legal employment to Bolivian citizens: A MEETING THAT SHOULD NOT BE CIRCUMSTANTIAL The surprise visit made by the President and VP of the State, accompanied by the Ministers of economy, productive development and communication to the facilities of the…
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