Latam Insights: Bolivia funderar på kinesiska yuan för handelsuppgörelser, Steve Hanke föreslår 30-dagarslösning för venezuelansk inflation

Välkommen till Latam Insights, ett kompendium med de mest relevanta nyheterna om krypto och ekonomisk utveckling från Latinamerika under den senaste veckan. I detta nummer, Bolivia funderar på att använda den kinesiska yuanen i internationella handelsuppgörelser, inflationen når 108.8% i Argentina, and Steve Hanke states he can eliminate Venezuela’s inflation in 30 dagar.

Bolivia Mulls Using Chinese Yuan in International Trade Settlements

The government of Bolivia has announced it is considering the usage of the Chinese yuan as a replacement for the US dollar for international trade settlements. The Bolivian President Luis Arce instructed the central bank to research if the recent advancement regarding the use of the Chinese currency in Brazil and Argentina could be also be applied in Bolivia’s case.

In a meeting with Bolivian journalists, Arce uppgav:

In the world, there are several countries that are going through illiquidity of dollars, to such an extent, what Argentina, Brasilien, France, and the Arab countries are doing is no less. What are they doing? They decide not to trade in dollars.

Bolivia recently passed a law to sell half of its gold reserves for dollars to give a solution to its dollar liquidity issues.

Inflation Reaches 108.8% Year Over Year in Argentina

The National Statistics Institute of Argentina (INDEC) has delivered the price data corresponding to April, registering an inflation increase of 108.8% year over year. The inflation number jumped further higher than the 104.3% registered i mars. Food and beverage items contributed the most to the rise in inflation numbers, with prices rising 10.1%.

The Argentine government förklarade that “the exchange rate unrest in the financial dollar markets, in the last part of the month, prompted preventive price increases in many products and services of our economy,” acknowledging that it would have to make bigger efforts to achieve better results in its fight against inflation.

Steve Hanke Believes He Can Eliminate Venezuela’s Inflation in 30 dagar

Steve Hanke, professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University, stated that he could bring inflation down in Venezuela in 30 dagar. Hanke, who is currently an economic advisor to Roberto Henriquez, a presidential candidate for the upcoming elections, believes that the solution to Venezuelan inflation is the implementation of a currency-board system.

This currency board system would allow for the exchange of Venezuelan bolivares at a fixed rate against the US dollar. In an interview on a local radio station, Hanke uppgav:

Within 30 days the inflation in Venezuela would be completely eliminated: and the inflation rate would be very close to the inflation rates in the U.S.

Hanke has already directed programs of this kind in Estonia, Lithuania, Bulgary, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Sergio Goschenko

Sergio är en kryptovalutajournalist baserad i Venezuela. Han beskriver sig själv som sen till matchen, in i kryptosfären när prisuppgången skedde under december 2017. Har en bakgrund inom datateknik, bor i Venezuela, och påverkas av kryptovalutaboomen på social nivå, han erbjuder en annan syn på kryptoframgång och hur det hjälper dem som saknar bank och som är underbetjänade.

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