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This year we held two Christmas parties because during the first one the food arrived so early that we didn’t get to finish the planned Christmas games, and we also forgot to get a proper group photo. Even with two opportunities, we only managed a very incomplete group photo: Our …

As INESAD was one of the main organizers (together with SEBOL and UPSA) of the 20th annual meeting of the Latin American and Carribbean Economics Association (LACEA), almost all of the INESAD staff went to Santa Cruz de la Sierra to help with the organization and participate in this major …

A combination of insatiable curiosity and healthy skepticism led a group of INESAD researchers to conduct a very unusual experiment for economists: Following a carefully devised protocol developed by Susana, we took water samples from our kitchen taps on Monday the 14th of September in several different neighborhoods in La …

This year’s Palca hike got postponed several times due to rain and other impediments, but Sunday the 13th of September was a perfect sunny day and we finally managed to do the annual hike. Here is the group at the beginning of the hike. This year a couple of Swedish …

This month’s Beer & Book Club meeting at INESAD experienced a significant upgrade, as Susana invited us all to her place for Spanish food and Spanish beer.

During INESAD’s Anniversary Party last month, one of the teams, los Buhos Locos, won a trip to the Moon Valley as well as a trip on the Teleferico. Here is the team reporting back from this weekend’s events.

On the 30th of July, INESAD held it’s 7th Economic Symposium in La Paz. This time the topic was Decent Work for Bolivia, and the event marked the launch of EMINPRO, a network of institutions and individuals working on the topics of employment, income and production in Bolivia. Beatriz Muriel …

This week we celebrated INESAD’s 9 year anniversary with lots of games and fun. Here is the official group photo:

Book lovers from INESAD meet once a month to present and exchange some of their favorite books. Here are the participants at the July 2015 meeting.

For no particular reason, except the desire to have some fun together, we organized a Saturday afternoon with barbecue and games in Mallasa on the 20th of June 2015.