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The improvement in country risk rating will enable Bolivia to have greater access to credit, but does not involve major investments in the international arena, said analyst and former finance minister, Armando Careaga.

The international Standard & Poor’s (S & P) upgraded yesterday the rating of country risk Bolivia’s B-/ C to B / B due to the reduction of external debt and high international reserves (U.S. $ 8,500 million), according reported yesterday by Finance Minister Luis Arce.

“Obviously you can go in Bolivia to loans from the World Bank or the Inter-American Development Bank with such qualification,” but “not the private market, because Bolivia has no input to that,” Careaga said.

Since 1980, Bolivia is not subject to credit for private international lending institutions because they had government debt after the period of military dictatorships, he said.

However, this classification does not imply greater investment to arrive from abroad, noted the expert. In addition, he said, “the image of nationalization is not in any way a good indicator for foreign investment.”

S & P considers Bolivia as a net external creditor, a situation that is accompanied by a steady increase in exports and a significant entry input options so their remittances, citing an official.

Success in business is for experts, no matter what you spend, you can become one, and one way is to transmit your knowledge in written form.

But … what to write? Or how? Quite simply, these 3 ways can help you:

1. Write articles. No matter if your skills are on Quilting, Strollers, Insurance and Finance, surely there is someone looking to learn more about it. The articles that explain “how” are great for drawing attention to your talent and knowledge to position yourself as an expert. Also, if you publish in specialized sites, you can attract qualified traffic to your site, and if the article is written in a compelling, it can even generate sales of your products or services.

We all have problems and how to fix them, your customers are looking for that solution. Put it in their power through articles. For example, at some point I realized that many people were on Facebook, but did not know how to use it to attract customers, so I wrote the article How to use Facebook to attract customers.

Tip: A blog is the place to publish your news and show off your knowledge.

2. Publishes an electronic newsletter. The famous electronic newsletters or e-zines are an efficient tool (in terms of cost and scope) to position yourself as an expert, because through them you can offer advice, useful information, share success stories and directly promote your products and services.

Elementum Client Attraction is just that, an electronic newsletter to which I keep in weekly contact with people who choose to subscribe. Doing so costs me literally pennies, and its scope and benefits are enormous.

3. Write a book. Nothing will better position you as an expert in your field that one book, and they can take 2 ways: 1) the traditional publishing industry and / or 2) of electronic publishing.

The former tend to be complicated, expensive and requires a lot of energy and resources. The second offers the possibility of having an e-book that costs almost nothing and can be easily distributed.

Whether you decide to implement one or all three ways to position yourself as an expert, the only thing I suggest is to start soon. Remember that there are people who are looking for what you know and offer, then do not miss more time and start writing.

When you do, you’re differentiating yourself from your competition, you are showing your knowledge and create value through them, allowing you to attract more customers and generate more revenue.

As part of the celebration of its centenary year worldwide and it’s 84 anniversaries in Mexico, IBM held in this city for the fourth consecutive year, the Forum of Finance. “A forum whose 2011 edition showed the advantages of the analytic tools and disciplines that can help CFOs (Chief Financial Officer), to anticipate and shape business results more efficiently and to handle the transparency to manage risk and improve decision-making.

The IBM Finance Forum is a series of global events where experts from the solutions come together from February to June, with finance executives in over 80 cities worldwide. The Forum has been designed specifically for finance executives who want to learn and discover how new analytical tools and practices can help transform the most important and critical processes of finance, risk to better manage business revenue.

“We live in a world with an explosive growth in the number, variety and granularity of information – both structured and unstructured. Advances in business process management, business rule management and information management, has created opportunities for organizations to achieve sustainable improved performance, “said Cuauhtemoc Vallejo, Manager of Business Analytics at IBM Mexico and Central America and concluded “It’s not only generate new ideas and deeper, but that can be used consistently and systematically. The range of opportunities includes the use of prognostic and predictive analysis to shape the strategy of the organization. ”

IBM has invested in solutions that enable agility in the functions of CFO. The administration of the financial performance of the IBM Cognos solution provides companies with analytic applications for automating financial consolidation, planning and budget setting process and the management support and visibility strategy of indicators key performance indicators (KPIs).

The acquisitions of technologies and OpenPages Clarity Systems in October 2010, is an IBM motion to face financial challenges of governance, compliance (compliance) and risk management. CFOs can facilitate a transformation to a broader financial governance, information and processes to integrate financial, compliance, performance and risk management.

In its 2011 edition, the Forum of Finance provided a practical, workable ideas, and valuable information about the innovations that can help improve the visibility, knowledge and control over the drivers of performance, governance and risk in volatile times.