By Oscar Antezana, El Día: Under current economic conditions —highly indebted, short on dollars, with reduced gas exports yet an urgent need to generate foreign currency— it is imperative and urgent to increase and diversify exports. Otherwise, just like 40 years ago, when former President Víctor Paz Estenssoro coined the historic phrase “Bolivia is dying…
Tag: macroeconomics
Revisiting the 2026 Budget | Presupuesto 2026 en revisión
By Jorge Soruco, Vision 360: Minister of Economy announces the “reformulation of the 2026 Budget” to adjust it to the country’s reality Minister Espinoza indicated that the budget was misused over the past 20 years, becoming a political instrument. The Minister of Economy after appointing the president of the BCB. PHOTO: APG The Minister of…
Economic Rescue Plan | Plan de rescate económico
By El Diario: New Government Sets Three Tasks to Begin Stabilizing the Economy The new government, led by Rodrigo Paz, has outlined three measures to be implemented immediately after taking office: ensuring fuel supply, injecting foreign currency into the national market, and curbing inflation. The goal is to stabilize the national economy within a period…
Grandma’s Jewels Are Pawned—and So Is the Economy’s Future | Las joyas de la abuela están empeñadas y el futuro de la economía también
By ANF, Eju.tv: What will the next government find? On November 8, the MAS cycle and its economic model will come to an end. The country is experiencing the worst economic crisis in 40 years, reflected in fuel shortages, rising inflation, and a black market for foreign currency, where the U.S. dollar trades at nearly twice…
NIR, small and a challenge for the new government | RIN, pequeño y desafío para el nuevo gobierno
By Germán Huanca, Urgente.bo: A figure has just been released that, last year, was kept highly secretive around this time. The Central Bank of Bolivia, today, before the end of the MAS’s 20 years in power, made public the new data on Net International Reserves (NIR) as of August 31, 2025. Bolivia had a total…
Harvard and Bolivia, the Commutative Property | Harvard y Bolivia, la propiedad conmutativa
By Amparo Ballivián, Brújula Digital: In 1984, Bolivian business leaders designed a structural adjustment plan (the basis of Supreme Decree 21060) and validated it with Jeffrey Sachs. Today, Harvard (Ricardo Hausmann) is proposing similar solutions for the current crisis, ratified by 90 Bolivians. The formula is classic: reduce the deficit, liberalize markets, and align prices…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 