Bolivia will expect excess rain in most of Bolivia for October,2011; during November and December, rain will continue everywhere but southwest Bolivia (parts of Oruro and most of Potosi) where there will be draught, reported the Meteorology and Hydrology National Service (SENAMHI) to La Razon. TEMPERATURES. Regarding temperatures for this month, previsions state that heat will be over…
Category: Business
Bolivia: Doing Business 2011, a WB – IFC publication
Out of 183 economies (countries), the World Bank (www.worldbank.org) co-published with the International Finance Corporation (www.ifc.org) the document: “Comparing Business Regulation in 183 countries” for 2011. Bolivia results’ follow: Bolivia certainly has room for improvement, we went down a place since last year’s. From Andres Oppenheimer’s article, an excerpt follows: “According to the World Bank’s “Doing…
Current Bolivia’s friends: Venezuela, Iran, Syria… why??
With their openly antagonism against free enterprise practices and open market activities, this government engages in questionable relations; along with the ALBA alliance Bolivia has with Venezuela, it embarks more and more with regimes like those of Iran and Syria. The latter with serious internal problems, like in other countries that experienced the coming of…
Status of electricity availability in Bolivia… or lack of…?
Pagina Siete: Guaracachi was supposed to generate electricity (82 MW) to the national system, by 11/01/2010. Because of that “delay,” the Authority for Electricity (AE) has established a fine of 939 thousand Bolivianos, because the generating unit Guaracachi 12 is not ready. The original budget for this combined cycle was 40 million dollars without taxes, insurance. In September…
Bolivian inflation this year: 2011
La Razon, using data from the National Institute for Statistics (INE) has produced the following chart: As of September, inflation this year is 5.54%, very close to the yearly estimated inflation current government expected to be 6% for this year. Armando Mendez, a highly respected Bolivian economist (and former Central Bank President) estimates that this…
UPDATE: TIPNIS’ protest-walk status, Oct 6, 2011
Opinion reports that the six elected indigenous congress-persons to the National Assembly, are working in a draft law document that intends to protect the TIPNIS from the road construction, said Bienvenido Zacu, representing the Guarayo people. Zacu said they are still working in such document (70% done) and whenever is ready, it will be submitted to the President of…
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