El Diario reports: 2016 Financial Fiscal Program The dollar exchange rate will not be changed this year • The announcement was made yesterday [03/16/2016] by the President of the Central Bank, so that the purchasing power of wages will be preserved • The exchange rate policy in 2015 helped maintain low inflation The president of…
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Brazilian Comptroller would investigate OAS contracts in Bolivia
Los Tiempos reports: Brazilian Comptroller would investigate OAS contracts in Bolivia The head of the bloc of Democratic Unity (UD), Arturo Murillo, yesterday [03/14/2016] asked the vice president of the Court of Accounts of the Union (Controller) of the Republic of Brazil, Julio Marcelo de Oliveira, the investigation of the lucrative contracts signed by OAS,…
Collapse of Bolivian exports
An Editorial from El Diario: Collapse of Bolivian exports Only last January, exports of various domestic products fell by one third in relation to the same month last year, according to worrying statistic provided by the National Statistics Institute (INE), the crash regarding foreign sales pertains to gas, manufacturing, minerals and agricultural products. More concretely,…
Forum proposes five suggestions for Bolivian industrial development
El Diario reports: Lack of public policies Forum proposes five suggestions for industrial development • Recommended to improve productivity levels of manufacturing to reverse technological backwardness • Experts analyzed conditions for the integral development of the sector At the end of the Forum “The main engine of economic growth. Industrial productivity. Current situation and outlook in…
In wake of WHO report, Bolivia touts llama as healthy alternative to beef
FP – JIJI reports for The Japan Times: In wake of WHO report, Bolivia touts llama as healthy alternative to beef AFP-JIJI TURCO, BOLIVIA – Danish chef Kamilla Seidler is carefully preparing steak tartare at Gustu, an upscale restaurant in the Bolivian capital of La Paz. But instead of the usual beef, she is making…
History 101: Potosi and the coins
Juan Jose Toro writes in El Deber: Potosi and the coins Potosi is known to habe been one of the most important cities of the Colony with its Cerro Rico [rich mountain]. True but insufficient. To understand what was Potosi, would have to say it was, in its time, the sum of London and New…
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