Latina Lista reports: Crowdfunder: Helping Bolivian school children pedal their way to academic success LatinaLista — In Third World countries, consistent access to electricity can be tricky, if not impossible for those remote villages and their residents. One non-profit in Bolivia has created a reliable source of electricity for people and it takes nothing more…
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Bolivian State enterprises do not justify their creation, they are a result of cheap demagogue and incompetence!
El Diario reports: State enterprises do not justify their creation • Political decisions, lack of managerial skills and market knowledge influenced on the failure of three firms in 2015, according to economists Economists Rolando Morales, Gonzalo Chavez and Roberto Laserna, warn that political decisions from the authorities, the lack of managerial skills and knowledge of…
Value of Bolivia’s March zinc, silver, copper exports fall on year
S&P Global, Platts, report: Value of Bolivia’s March zinc, silver, copper exports fall on year Lima (Platts)–5 May 2016 953 am EDT/1353 GMT The value of Bolivia’s minerals exports dropped 13% year on year to $377.3 million in March due to declining metals prices and operations closures, the government said Wednesday. Zinc concentrate exports fell…
An ethnography of Bolivian Aymara traders in the global economy
A book by Oxford University Press: About the Book Based on years of fieldwork, this ethnography of the Bolivian Aymara trading system and its networks and economic strategies examines one of the most up-and-coming forms of indigenous entrepreneurship on the American continent, in a region where the indigenous population is still stigmatized for…
UCB awards a scholarship to the creator of the Bolivian Wall-E robot
Pagina Siete reports: UCB awards a scholarship to the creator of the Bolivian Wall-E robot Esteban Quispe Churata, the creator of the replica of the Bolivian Wall-E, is benefiting, starting this semester, with a scholarship in the career of Mechatronics Engineering at the Universidad Católica Boliviana. He is in first semester and already stands out…
Bolivian government continues to damage national production
El Deber reports through hoybolivia.com: Anapo see that the quota for export is low EL DEBER.- The quota of 100,000 tons of soybean authorized by the Government to be exported does not represent not even 4% of the oleaginous production, said Reinaldo Diaz, president of the Association of Oilseed and Wheat Producers (ANAPO). “The measure…
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