El Diario reports: Anapo warns that 2016 will be difficult. Lowering strategic crops due to currency devaluations The devaluation of currencies in Argentina and Brazil will severely impact next year in the agricultural sector of the country, which brings together producers of corn, sorghum, wheat and chia. In addition, the leader of the sector warned that…
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International reserves with the downward trend
El Diario reports: International reserves with the downward trend Net international reserves remain on a downward trend, according to a report of the Central Bank of Bolivia (BCB) which reveals that on November 20, it has been reached $13,710 million dollars, to October was in $13.967 million dollars, still it differs $257 million. Another adverse…
Bolivia to improve human development policies… fast!
El Diario reports: WB suggests Bolivia to improve human development policies With the growth of the Bolivian workforce, the World Bank (WB) recommended that the authorities improve human development policies that would allow to train citizens of working age for the next three decades. The WB specialist Marcio Cruz, said that Bolivia has been classified…
Bolivia’s Morales, once leftist climate pact foe, turns pragmatic
Rosalba O’Brien reports for Reuters: Bolivia’s Morales, once leftist climate pact foe, turns pragmatic LA PAZ (Reuters) – Bolivia’s President Evo Morales leaves no doubt about who he blames for global warming. “Capitalism is like a cancer for Mother Earth,” he declared in October to an audience of indigenous groups and farmers, environmental groups and…
Bolivia engages in pernicious high consumption and public spending that leads us nowhere!
El Diario reports: Economist observed high consumption and public spending For economist José Gabriel, in an article entitled “Errors in the Ministry of Economy,” published in a newspaper of Cochabamba, he said that the model is based on the incentive to aggregate demand (consumption), mainly driven by strong public expenditure, both investment and consumption, and…
Bolivian politics: When being a politician becomes a sin
Ilya Fortun writes in Pagina Siete: When being a politician becomes a sin MAS has called for a referendum on February 21 that they believe will be a referendum, but in reality will be virtually a recall. Evo and MAS are directed straight to the scaffold, he has been self-condemned after an incredible political maneuver…
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