From El Deber and Los Tiempos, respectively: Inflation The price of the onion, household beer consumption, housing rent and lunch, according to the Statistics National Institute of (INE), were the more inflationary. In November the consumer price index (CPI and IPC in Spanish) closed with 0.32%, but in October, was 0.47%. Since the beginning of the…
Category: Business
MBA reengineered by Harvard Business School
Today I will share with you a broader topic, with the world-changing, businesses also have to look after professionals with skills that can cope effectively with this century’s demands. A new approach for those of us looking after a Masters in Business Administration. Here is a paragraph from the article: Learning by Doing: Harvard Reinvents…
Bolivian export figures, IBCE
Thanks to the work of the Bolivian Institute for Foreign Trade IBCE, there is a comparison of Bolivian exports by production groups; for the months January to October, for years 2008 to 2011. By volume in gross kilograms and by value in American dollars: IBCE Electronic By-weekly Bulletin No. 85, December 5, 2011 The…
Remittances help consolidate 89 entrepreneurial initiatives
Pagina Siete reports on a very important element for the economics of Bolivian households who have part of their families working outside our country: A total of 89 business that generated at the same time 254 jobs are the result of the implementation of the migratory model of voluntary people coming back; an initiative made…
December Econ 101: An alert that State intervention is ‘expensive’
A very informative report news, extremely useful economic analysis of current Bolivian government performance. Written by Carla Paz Vargas for El Deber, December 3, 2011: The blackouts, the importation of food, the restriction of exports, the increase in the subsidy to fuel, lack of jobs and the collapse of foreign investment, among other things, are…
Money laundering & inflation against Bolivian society
This cartoon is from El Diario, November 30, 2011. It portrays how much money laundering, and narco-traffick are becoming a real nuisance and are also more widely perceived by Bolivian society; out there for anyone to see… In the cartoon the person is pointing and saying: “these buildings are known as ‘washing buildings’ they whiten…
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