Carlos Cordero writes in El Deber: The electoral defeat of MAS President Evo Morales has set himself and his staff the challenge of achieving 74% of the valid votes in the elections of October 2014. This means an increase of ten percentage points from the high vote obtained in 2009 (64.2%), including the votes of…
Category: Economics
How current Bolivian gov defines, implements public policy
Carlos Toranzo writes in Pagina Siete: Public policy: whims and caprices If the President wishes an expensive plane, which seems to undermine his austerity spiel, the government decides to buy it so that he can travel with the comfort of Manchester United, with foreign crew and wasteful expenditure, which passes to the State’s account. And…
Understand how Bolivian cocaine is taking over Argentina
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Diario: The Argentinian Province Jorge Lanata said that the unique contribution of the Kirchner to his country was that they introduced the drug narcotraffick, thanks to coca entering Argentina from Bolivia, thousands of tons. These governments are, indeed, changing the history of their countries. Argentina received its name because it…
Bolivian mining conundrum…
Ivan Arias writes in Pagina Siete: Cooperatives: stop lying The mining conflict has evidenced once again (as it did with the issue of TIPNIS), the contradiction between the principles of the Constitution of the State (CPE) and real life. In this case, while we have a statist CPE and, supposedly, oriented to socialism, it collides…
A proof that Bolivia is not properly calculating its inflation: was it on purpose or…?
Hilton Heredia reports for El Deber: The INE will amend the Consumer Price Index in 2015 They will include new food, technology and transport products in the cost structure. A former president of the BCB noted different behaviors in each of the regions. The National Statistics Institute (INE) enlists a survey of personal and household…
Bolivian Railroads 101
Juan Carlos Zuleta writes in La Prensa: RAILWAY, PAST AND PRESENT For the geographical, topographical and population density characteristics of our country; the railway transport sector has become extremely important as a means of enabling the movement of people and exchange of goods, it “allowed” an effective integration of the country. This was prior to…
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