Highlights de Bolivia

Highlights 2009 Later 2008 started the recession period for the prosperity of the national economy, period that lasted during the last five years as a result of the expansive worldwide cycle which has recently been interrupted as a result of the international financial crisis of last September and then by a simultaneous recession that affects the main developed economies as from October.

In the first half of 2008, the combination of the economic crisis and the increase of the price food generated an inflationary threat. In addition, the economic and financial expansion has caused macroeconomic problems as regards to the inflationary pressure, which increased from 2007 up to 2008 and the appreciation of the real exchange rate that affects competiveness for the exports

However, the main shortcoming that the economy reflects now in this period consists on the stuck of private investment, which limits the growth of the economy in the mid/long term as well as the generation of employments. Highlights Anteriores: