Social investor Oikocredit has more than doubled its stake in Bolivian microfinance bank Banco Fie. The transaction makes Oikocredit a more significant minority shareholder of Banco Fie....
Mirna Ines Fernández Pradel is 27 years old and she cares for the environment and is passionate about protecting it. Mirna, who lives in Bolivia, became...
The ArBolivia project’s crowdfunder campaign has kicked off with more than £50,000 having been raised from 33 investors. It’s a great start but we have just over...
A PETA US donation of $1 million (£657k) in high-tech simulators will modernise physician-training programmes in seven countries and spare the lives of thousands of animals...
The year is 2000 and Jan Levy is in Bolivia. A year into his MBA course, he had become disillusioned. Fed up of the share price-obsessed...
If it’s too good to be true, it probably is. Many people seem to forget this maxim when investing. In recent years, there has been a...
Investments can sometimes seem pretty remote from real life. If we’re not careful, we can regress into dealing with pure numbers. Several investment websites seem to...
John Fleetwood of the Cochabamba Project writes about how a sustainable investment opportunity in Bolivia is having tangible positive impacts on the local people. “We just...
Sixty-one out of 66 countries, including emerging economies, have so far promoted laws to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, according to the latest report by the...
Deforestation in the Amazon region not only affects the local climate and biodiversity, but also access to water, food and energy for people in Latin America,...