El Diario reports: Ambassador recommends diversifying production The ambassador of Canada in Bolivia, Patricia Fortier, recommended the Government to boost productive diversification. Also highlighted the work that the country has in the energy sector. Also, Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), called for further progress on structural reforms and trade. In…
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How to generate employment and economic value for Bolivia!
Alberto Bonadona writes in Pagina Siete: Between what is said and what you want to hear Last week I witnessed an excellent exhibition by Enrique Velazco in the Central Bank, in which he addressed a group mostly composed of economists. The clarity with which exposed the data and the explanation made by were, as always,…
Extract or produce? Which is better for Bolivia?
Development dilemma? It certainly proved elsewhere, value added to primary commodities will bring wealth to a nation. El Diario publishes this interesting reality… To the detriment of higher levels of growth Extraction model does not lead to the productive according to economists In the case of the cooperative mining companies, there is the need for…
Sugar cane in Bolivia will experience a 20% increase from last year
Ivan Condori reports for La Razon, photo is from Angel Illanes: In the new harvest this year, which starts in May, it is expected to produce about 4.53 million tons (t) of sugar cane, which represents a growth of 20% over the 2011 harvest that reached 3.78 million. Sugar cane producers (Cañeros) say that upward volume…
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…
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