By El Deber: Bolivia exports more, but pressure on the foreign exchange market persists Bolivian exports currently constitute the country’s main source of foreign currency inflows. The growth of exports helps sustain the inflow of dollars into the country, although experts warn that the settlement of foreign currency payments still takes months. Goods leave Santa…
Category: Economics
Not only dialogue, but also direction | No solo diálogo, también rumbo
By Jaime Dunn, Eju.tv: Not only dialogue, but also direction: because ideology defines the size of the bread I value the national dialogue and congratulate the government for organizing it. Bolivia needs fewer blockades and more institutional conversation. But the country needs something deeper: direction. Bolivia does not only need to talk. Bolivia needs to…
Pay for Production | Pago por Producción
By Erbol: THE CURRENT ONE HARMS THEM Microentrepreneurs prepare labor law proposal based on the premise that payment should be tied to production Leader Guillermo Chávez explains the characteristics of the proposal. The microenterprise sector is drafting a new Labor Law that adapts to modern times and production methods, because it believes the current regulation…
Bolivia’s Long Socialist Decline | Setenta años de socialismo y decadencia boliviana
Editorial, Bolivian Thoughts: Broken by Statism Bolivia’s economic collapse did not begin with Evo Morales or the MAS. The roots go much deeper. Since the 1952 National Revolution, generations of Bolivian politicians have embraced different versions of socialism, state control, and economic populism. The promise was always the same: more equality, more justice, more prosperity…
The Other Side of the Anger Over Law 1720 | La otra cara del enojo con la Ley 1720
By German Huanca, Urgente.bo: The repeal of Law 1720 is not an act of justice toward peasants or indigenous people: it is a political operation. Behind the chorus of voices clamoring against this law hide three interests that have little to do with the well-being of the rural sector — leaders of the CSUTCB and…
Cheap Power, Low Wages | Energía Barata, Salarios Bajos
By ElPais.bo: “Borrowed Light: Bolivia’s Energy Crossroads,” Part 2 Cheap Energy, Low Wages: The Hidden Cost of Electricity Subsidies While Bolivia maintains the lowest electricity rates in South America, average wages are up to three times lower than in Chile or Uruguay. Energy subsidies do not reduce poverty: they reproduce it by concealing the real…
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