By Daniel Gutierrez, La Razon: The sector’s proposal includes eliminating bureaucratic and tax barriers to attract investors and promote tourism. The ATT reports 33,000 airline passengers affected by high demand. Image: La Razón archive Due to the high costs of entering the country and the lack of effective policies to promote tourism, sector operators propose…
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ECLAC: Bolivia’s economy will grow 1.7% in 2024, half of the government’s forecast (3.71%) | Cepal: La economía boliviana crecerá 1,7% en 2024, la mitad de lo previsto por el Gobierno (3,71%)
By El Deber: Bolivia has become the third most inflationary economy in the region, after Argentina and Venezuela, with a cumulative inflation of 8.82% and an annual inflation rate of 9.51%. Twelve days before the end of 2024, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) published its latest regional economic report titled…
Agreement to seek unity, to find a single candidate | Acuerdo para buscar la unidad, para encontrar un candidato único
By Yerko Guevara, Unitel; Eju.tv: Who can join the pact signed by Tuto, Mesa, Camacho, and Doria Medina? Here’s what Carlos Valverde says “There is an agreement to seek unity, to find a single candidate, to try to build a very strong candidacy. There is absolutely nothing else,” said the analyst. From the perspective of…
Key topics for the 2025 elections | Temas clave para las elecciones del 2025
By Brujula Digital: Jubileo: Civil society proposes 16 urgent topics for the 2025 electoral agenda The Jubileo Foundation organized citizens’ priorities on social, economic, environmental, and political issues and presented them to political organizations ahead of the General Elections. Multidimensional poverty, educational inequality, dependency on extractivism, and political polarization are among the 16 key topics…
SOCIALISM THEN AND NOW, HERE AND THERE | EL SOCIALISMO ANTES Y AHORA, AQUÍ Y ALLÁ
By Oscar Antezana Malpartida Would Lenin have approved of the IMF? A simplistic answer to the question is: No. The International Monetary Fund’s purpose is to preserve the international financial system and, for that, national economies’ finances must also remain in a certain balance. In that sense, any socialist should disapprove of the IMF. But…
Mientras el gran modelo económico estatal de Bolivia se desmorona lentamente, crece el temor a una ‘crisis total’ | As Bolivia’s big state economic model slowly implodes, fear of ‘total crisis’
Por Monica Machicao, Reuters: Un hombre carga una bolsa de fideos en un mercado, en La Paz, Bolivia, el 13 de diciembre de 2024. REUTERS/Claudia Morales Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab LA PAZ, Dec 16 (Reuters) – La ama de casa Yola Chura se mostró preocupada por los altos precios de los alimentos mientras hacía compras en…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 