Bolivian salaries only enough to feed our families… and the rest…?!

From El Dia: Evaluation on the unequal distribution of the income Cedla: wages in the country just enough to eat Reality. Worker’s wages in Bolivia spends more on food and has 39% incidence in the basic basket. An evaluation of the Center of Studies for the Labor and Agrarian Development (Centro de Estudios para el Desarrollo…

Bolivia is in the last place due to lack of budgetary transparency

From ANF [Fides News Agency]: THE COUNTRY IS IN LAST PLACE DUE TO LACK OF BUDGETARY TRANSPARENCY It reached just 12 points due to lack of appropriate publications from the project’s budget and for not spreading understandable information for the population in general, the rating is on a 100 point scale. La Paz, 26 Jan…

Unemployment hits hard our young professionals

Yesterday most of the world celebrated Labor day, today I wanted to share an article that is shocking, depressing and hard to revert situation: Bolivian young professionals face underemployment, and/or unemployment. Bolivia does not elude what is happening around the world. Ruy D’Alencar writes for El Deber: Short, from La Paz, uses dreadlocks in his…