A sound Editorial from El Deber: The legal assurances One of the little observed consequences of the rise of prices of raw materials exported by Bolivia is that in the country, there is now the petty idea that the economy can grow without the need for private investment. The bonanza had other consequences, like the…
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Current Bolivian president wants to remain ‘Ad vitam aeternam’!
Caros Cordero writes in El Deber: The lifetime Presidency It is not the first time that President Evo Morales says that the minority peasant indigenous sector of the country (see the results of the 2012 census in this regard), through the political instrument known as the MAS, has come to the Government Palace to stay…
What is and should be the role of the Bolivian Army?
El Deber’s editorial: Democracy and armed forces What Bolivia currently needs the least are the shocks affecting its institutional framework. Isn’t that precisely the nation is respecting rigorously its rules, much less. On the contrary, we know that there is a clear process of chaos and deterioration in the country’s institutions. What is serious is,…
Is democracy lost in current Bolivia?
El Dia’s Editorial: Who will save democracy? President Morales has returned to affirm that his political project or maybe he, coming to be the same, have become to stay indefinitely at the Quemado Palace. He says, after at least six political groupings have practically confirmed to participate in the general elections of 2014. The presidential…
Bolivia: Slowing inflationary pressures
Alberto Bonadona writes in El Deber: Slowing inflationary pressures Officially the monetary authorities accept that the goal of 4.8% inflation expected this year will not be achieved. To avoid the pressures that drive prices to rise, the Central Bank is issuing more bonds, trying to reduce the money in the hands of the public. A…
Ronald H. Coase’s work and Bolivia
Pedro Shimose writes in El Deber: . . In memory of Ronald H. Coase Has died the British Economist, US nationalized, Ronald Harry Coase (Willesden, near London, 12/29/1910 – Chicago, 09/02/2013 / Nobel Prize 1991), at the age of 102. Contemporary of Paul A. Samuelson (1915-2009 / Nobel Prize 1970), said: “in this age of…
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