Los Tiempos published today results of a survey regarding how citizens perceive corruption in their municipalities. 1,200 citizens were interviewed in 14 disctrict of the city and 3 other municipalities. Bribery heads the polls by 39.28%; 21.74% agreed that all reasons were cause for corruption; 18.24% political friendship; 8.32% family related; ad 4.81% said none…
Category: Santa Cruz
Land titles given away in Santa Cruz had no value…
El Dia reports today that the land titles given by the central government over two months ago are of no value. ANAPO (vegetable oil) organization hosted an event where current president gave 1,046 of those titles to the members of this organization. It was an important event that the government used to show that central…
Bolivia’s poor fiscal budget execution during 2010
As you can see in Pagina Siete’s report (Aug 25, 2011), Bolivian public sector lack of expenditures is growing over the years, as the red columns show for 2008 to 2010. The chart above that graph lists: central government (36.6%), departmental governments (20.7%), municipalities (30.6%) and other public institutions (percentages in parenthesis represent current budget execution). Between 2008…
Standard & Poor’s gave Bolivia a B, B+ grade, BUT…
Standard & Poor’s qualified the perspectives for Bolivia as “positive” and had given a B+ and a B, which are highly dependent on expected investments in the mining and gas sectors, as also on future “political tensions”, according to ANF. Standard & Poor’s warns that “if political tensions were to resurrect and would cause economic uncertainty,…
Only 50% of the wood Bolivian industry is legal…
New forestry regulations stipulate that all timber producers need to certify the wood they extract from the forest. So far, only 50% of the 1,300 companies in the timber business have their Origin Forestry Certificates (CEFO). Deadline to obtain this certificate was this Monday, August 22, 2011. Now, the Forest and Territory Authority (ABT) has to…
Lack of energy in Bolivia: day-light savings during summer…
As a result of electricity blackouts in major Bolivian cities. The government has determined to implemented day-light savings for the summer time, September 11, 2011 to March 18, 2012 (see El Deber link below, in its first part the article mentions dates as being 9/1/2011 to 3/31/2012). There are mixed opinions: some energy experts say it…
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