As it could have predicted and like it happened in the old USSR, actual Cuba and former China, the performance of the state-owned companies who are “the pride” of current government’s policy, Pagina Siete reports… Nearly two years of the commencement of its operations, the income generated by State-owned strategic enterprises Lacteosbol, Bolivian company of…
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Increased arbitrage as a signal of…?
Pagina Siete reports about the increased number of request for arbitrage in Bolivia: According to the center of conciliation and arbitration of Cainco (CCAC), the requests for arbitration and conciliation between parties in conflict have increased in recent years. The Executive Director of that institution, Claudia Paccieri, states that “more and more are the cases…
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…
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…
Transparency International ranks Bolivia’s corruption
I made this collage from Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index 2011. On the left, there is the scale by color and numbers from the very clean to the highly corrupt perception for 2011. Below the title in black, Bolivia’s map with its “corruption’s color and those of our neighbors. To the right, the list of…
Keynes would disapprove current Bolivian government… Friedman would have a sad a smile over Bolivian’s reality
These are the conclusions that Fundacion Milenio presented on September 2011, issue No. 23; the lead writer is Ivan Arias Duran It is an analysis of the State owned & created-under-this-government companies (full Spanish study is attached at the end of this post). This research was possible with the collection of official information from public…
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