2 Bolivia Logistics Infrastructure
Bolivia Logistics Infrastructure
In almost a decade (2004 - 2013), resources in the General State
Budget rose approximately 380% in construction; road maintenance,
650%; in the water sector, 780%; in energy, and the biggest public
investment was allocated to telecommunications, namely 40.000 %,
with the purchase, placing in orbit and construction of 3 satellite
earth stations, for communication.
The following information is extracted from the report by the
Confederation of Private Entrepreneurs of Bolivia, "Investment and
Growth" – 2013”:
Within the public investment in infrastructure, transport is the
area receiving more resources, related largely to road
construction. In geographical terms, departmental road networks
have shown the highest growth rate, with an increase in its
extension of more than 300%, while the basic road network roads
have had an increase of 120% and municipal roads of barely 50%.
Investment in water resources (mainly irrigation) has had a better
performance, because between 1990 and 2012 investment in this
sector has risen more than 19 times.
In recent years, investment in the productive sector has shown a
significant increase, especially by the high prices of minerals
with respect to their role in the economy, mainly in the mining and
hydrocarbons extraction area. In nominal terms, public investment
in mining has increased more than 46 times between 1990 and 2012,
and the hydrocarbons sector has grown 381, 9% in the same
period.
Social investment (which includes the health, education, housing
and basic sanitation sectors) generated a change in investment due
to the administrative decentralization in 1995. Housing and urban
development sector receives a greater amount of investment
resources, representing 32.6% of the total investment in that
period, while education accounted for 30.8%, health fell to 17.9%,
and basic sanitation accounted for 18.6%.