Federico Estol’s series gives glamour and respect to La Paz’s marginalised community, Financial Times: There are 3,000 shoe-shiners who go out into the streets of La Paz, the Bolivian capital, each day in search of clients. They are all ages and have become a unique phenomenon: what distinguishes this tribe is their use of ski…
Tag: work force
Subempleo – Underemployment
Pagina Siete: The underemployment shoots up to 17% and affects 597 thousand people in the country People who are underemployed do not contribute to the AFPs, do not have a permanent job with a contract and do not receive social benefits. Until the third quarter, the unemployment rate reached 10.76%, according to the INE. La…
Alliance for employment and production – Alianza por el empleo y la producción
Jimmy Ortiz writes in El Deber: Alliance for employment and production The economic and social consequences that the Coronavirus crisis has left us, will have to be faced among all. The fall in GDP in Bolivia, by 5.9%, will be the worst in national history. The world expects a 5.2% drop, which will mean “the…
Bonds, an important palliative – Bonos, un paliativo importante
Editorial from Pagina Siete: Bonds, an important palliative President Jeanine Añez did what was expected: she extended by two weeks the quarantine to prevent the movement of people and, with it, the spread of COVID-19. The logic of the decision is that the country has not yet reached its peak of infection and that, having…
About maids or household employees in Bolivia …
Impressive number of people, let’s not forget that it has been declining as evo’s demagogue forced many households to fire these people, by forcing unrealistic payments like the double Christmas bonus … in the end, the “cure” was worse than the illness itself. Bolivian people have to work to survive, working as a maid/household employee…
Bolivia and the trades of yesterday
Ivone Juárez reports for Pagina Siete: The trades of yesterday in La Paz Most of them disappeared: the dairy women did not walk the streets, nor did the ice-cream parlors with the cart full of photographs or the chamuñero, who was tempted with his marshmallows at the exit of the cinemas and the theater. One…
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