Bolivia’s economic freedom score is 46.8, making its economy the 163rd freest in the 2015 Index. Its overall score is 1.6 points worse than last year, with notable deteriorations in six of the 10 economic freedoms including financial freedom, investment freedom, and labor freedom. Bolivia is ranked 26th out of 29 countries in the South…
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Undisputed truth: the masismo has managed to drive our exports down!
Opinion reports: Bolivian exports fall 29.6 percent OPINION.- The country’s exports in the first half of 2015 fell by 29.6 percent compared to those recorded in the same period of 2014. Between January and June 2014 export earnings totaled $6,657 million dollars while in the same period this year the amount reached $4,687 million dollars,…
Tarija also wasted money under the MAS: Oliva claims that the MAS spent on snacks Bs39 MM
El Diario reports: Government of Tarija: Oliva claims that the MAS spent on snacks Bs39 MM The governor of Tarija, Adrian Oliva, reported that during the four years that The Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) managed the department of Tarija government and spent Bs39 million Bolivians in snacks, and other expenses which he described as “waste”…
Ruling gov disguises public investment figures! – Oclocracia masista disfraza las cifras de la inversión pública!
Today, I’m posting an analysis made by a Santa Cruz reputable economist: Ruling gov disguises public investment figures! The central government disguised figures of public investment, including bonus payments (dignity rent, Juana Azurduy, Juancito Pinto) on investment which is not, includes payments of salaries of the consultants of public companies, which nor is investment in…
Bolivia’s Minimum Wage: How to Kill the Economy
From PanAm Post: Bolivia’s Minimum Wage: How to Kill the Economy Red Tape Forces Thousands to Scratch a Living in Informal Labor Sector by Roberto Ortiz March 17, 2015 at 3:11 pm Bolivian President Evo Morales has once again come to an agreement with the Bolivian Worker’s Center (COB) to increase their workers pay by…
Bolivian government begins to crumble as they failed with economic policies
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Diario: Memories from the present The “opinion makers” win The side of the “opinion makers” [pundits] as the minister of economy calls them, to those who warn severity of the coming crisis, is gaining popularity. Last week, President Evo Morales passed to the ranks of the “pundits” and, in that…
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