Today I will share with you a broader topic, with the world-changing, businesses also have to look after professionals with skills that can cope effectively with this century’s demands. A new approach for those of us looking after a Masters in Business Administration. Here is a paragraph from the article: Learning by Doing: Harvard Reinvents…
Bolivian export figures, IBCE
Thanks to the work of the Bolivian Institute for Foreign Trade IBCE, there is a comparison of Bolivian exports by production groups; for the months January to October, for years 2008 to 2011. By volume in gross kilograms and by value in American dollars: IBCE Electronic By-weekly Bulletin No. 85, December 5, 2011 The…
Remittances help consolidate 89 entrepreneurial initiatives
Pagina Siete reports on a very important element for the economics of Bolivian households who have part of their families working outside our country: A total of 89 business that generated at the same time 254 jobs are the result of the implementation of the migratory model of voluntary people coming back; an initiative made…
Coca growers against the TIPNIS intangible condition…
This cartoon appeared in El Dia, December 3, 2011. The “intangibility” concept has resulted a headache to the indigenous people of the TIPNIS; who already lost the contracts with the tourism agencies and the controlled logging activities. The coca growers group who support current government, wanted to enter the TIPNIS, so they could expand their…
TIPNIS latest as of December 4, 2011 – 20:32 PM
El Deber website reported the latest agreement between TIPNIS leaders and the government regarding the regulations for the “short law” and the ‘intangible’ concept: The document was signed approximately at 10:30 AM this Sunday, informed the President of the sub-central Sécure, Fernando Vargas, now the regulation must be endorsed by presidential decree. The Act establishes that…
December Econ 101: An alert that State intervention is ‘expensive’
A very informative report news, extremely useful economic analysis of current Bolivian government performance. Written by Carla Paz Vargas for El Deber, December 3, 2011: The blackouts, the importation of food, the restriction of exports, the increase in the subsidy to fuel, lack of jobs and the collapse of foreign investment, among other things, are…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 