Bolivia is caught in a tight grip of dollar scarcity, leading to a tangled web of parallel exchange rates, much like the economic scenes in Argentina and Venezuela. This crisis has sparked various market adaptations, impacting transactions from everyday purchases to significant investments. Economists in Bolivia identify at least four different exchange rates in the […]
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