The following excerpt is from an article made by Aline Quispe and published by La Razon. I urge you to read thinking not only on El Mutun’s future but as prevailing precedent that could create some sort of jurisprudence on future foreign capital investment to Bolivia. Investments that we are desperately looking after, in order…
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Bolivian economy and its institutional weakening – Bolivian macroeconomics 101 – July 2012
Fundacion Milenio has released another good report, No.154 dated July 13, 2012; because os its relevance, I reproduce in its entirety: The Bolivian economy and its institutional weakening The Bolivian economy continues to enjoy an economic boom that, despite the problems that have arisen in Europe and United States, maintains high prices for our exports. This…
Bidding awards made by YPFB will be investigated for evidence of corruption
Another sign of corruption or at least bad management or lack thereof, this time in the top state-owned hydrocarbon company: YPFB (the pride of current government’s nationalization policy). El Diario reports: It is in doubt the transparency of the procurement process to build the separator plants of liquids of Rio Grande and Gran Chaco, after…
El Mutun continues to remain an open question, by Milenio Foundation
The Milenio Foundation has just issued an interesting and however stressing report on El Mutun, I thought about translating just the questions they raise at the end, however, I concluded that some of you would like the whole report, so here it goes: El Mutun continues to remain an open question, No.151 – June 15,…
Bolivian Economics 101:The economic agenda, in its ‘infancy’
This is an interesting and enlightening article made by Juan Carlos Salinas Cortez for El Deber: Already five months passed since at the Social and Economic Summit in Cochabamba and promoted by the Government to ‘set the ground rules’ for the elaboration of economic and productive agenda with the private sector. However, so far the…
What happens when a government nationalizes private ventures?
Milenio Foundation is a very reputable and serious think tank in Bolivia. They just published their Report “New nationalization cycle” No.150, dated June 8, 2012. To nationalize is to capture private companies and convert them to state-owned; in Spanish it is also called ‘estatizaciones’. The conclusions of this report follow: Conclusions The estimated cost of…
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