Editorial, Pagina Siete: The measures that do not arrive As much as the virus is increasingly familiar and close to us, we will never finish knowing it. Maybe we will learn to fight it and hope that sooner or later the vaccine can neutralize it, but while humanity desperately advances in that sense, the virus,…
Category: Economics
El dilema – The dilemma
Rafael Sosa, El Dia: Health and economy How to find the balance? Providing information on the prevention of Covid-19 and testing campaigns can become much more effective measures than rigid quarantines in Bolivia, where there is talk of emphasizing economic reactivation, said Pablo Mendieta, an economist at the Bolivian Center for Economic Studies of the…
La visión del agricultor – Farmer’s vision
Rolando Morales, Página Siete: Changes in traditional agriculture The main crops of traditional agriculture continue to show low yields, although research centers report having found the appropriate technologies to increase them, even to levels higher than those of neighboring countries. Some recent events shed light on the understanding of this paradox, at the same time…
Real growth – 2021 – Crecimiento real
Pagina siete: The WB foresees growth of 3.9% for Bolivia The World Bank (WB) foresees that in 2021 Bolivia will reach a growth of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of 3.9%, a figure lower than that estimated by the Government in the General State Budget (PGE), of 4.8% . [Opinion of Bolivian Thoughts: The populist,…
2020, año absurdo, 2021, año preocupante – Absurd 2020, worrisome 2021
Editorial, El Diario: Surely the history of Bolivia will consider the past political year as the most negative and absurd of its existence due to the appalling management of political activities and the inefficiency of its eventual administrators. Therefore, it is not possible to stop remembering what happened during that stage, in such a way…
Polarizada – Bolivia – Polarized
Roberto Laserna, El Dia: Polarization and political conflict After having lived two very intense years in the country, with two national elections, violent conflicts, two changes of government and a transition heavily hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, we arrived at the end of 2020 with a collective sense of concern and fear. The country has…
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