Lidia Mamani reports for La Prensa: Bolivian rice loses markets The cause is the lack of development of a better quality product for export. Bolivia lost two international markets for rice, Chile and Brazil, as a result of the lack of development of a quality seed, said the President of the Rice National Council (ConArroz),…
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Only 24 of 177 Bolivian Foreign Ministry diplomats are professional
Pagina Siete reports: Just 13.5% of the staff was academically trained Only 24 of 177 Foreign Ministry diplomats are professional DATA as recorded on the lists of the central service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, officials with hierarchical positions are not career diplomats. Only 13.5% of the specialized personnel of the Ministry of foreign…
Remittances to Bolivia Outpace Investment by 2-1
From Remittances to Bolivia Outpace Investment by 2-1 LA PAZ – Bolivia received nearly $1.1 billion in remittances last year, more than twice the $507 in foreign direct investment going to the Andean nation, an economist with the Inter-American Development Bank said on Monday. The IDB’s Omar Zambrano said that money sent home by emigrants…
For lack of markets, Bolivian sugar price drops… how about the future?
There are no better ways to undermine production like what is happening in Bolivia… El Deber, Carla Paz reports: Drops the price of sugar for lack of markets Product. Because of the oversupply, the price of a 5 kg bag fell from Bs30 to Bs27. Industrialists and sugar cane producers express their concern. The IBCE…
BOLIVIA MUST have CLEAR RULES and LEGAL CERTAINTY
An excellent article by El Diario, an excellent speech by IBCE’s president: IBCE demands legal certainty and clear rules The President of the Bolivian Institute of Foreign Commerce (IBCE), José Luis Landívar Bowles, stated that Bolivia private entrepreneurs may not plan their business strategies due to the uncertainty that exists in the country and called…
What has made Santa Cruz so special and successful over 202 years?
The following paragraphs are excerpts from an article published in El Dia yesterday. Santa Cruz competitiveness’ results were published in an earlier post on September 20th, you can read about it using this link. These excerpts are interesting and describe even more Santa Cruz’s importance: From Marcelo Campos Velez article: Idiosyncrasies of the Santa Cruz…
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