Nowadays, the city is the most populated, and the Department of Santa Cruz, rank second in total population, produce nearly thirty five percent of Bolivia's gross domestic product, and receive over forty percent of all the foreign direct investment in the country.

At 41, he was the youngest vice president in Bolivia's history.

The Chilean Army and Chilean Navy defeated the combined forces of Bolivia and Peru, and Chile took over Bolivia's only province on the Pacific Coast, some land from Peru, also-that was returned to Peru decades later.

In the 1520s, large-scale extraction of silver from the rich deposits of Mexico's Guanajuato began to be greatly augmented by the silver mines in Mexico's Zacatecas and Bolivia's Potosí from 1546.

Bolivia's claim to the Chaco became more urgent after it lost its sea coast ( the Atacama region ) to Chile during the 1879-84 War of the Pacific.

It has been benefited from steady economic growth and is now the second commercial and financial center of the city, housing international firms like Moody's, Citibank, Aon Corporation, Huawei, Millicom International Cellular, Nissan Motor Corporation represented by Taiyo Motors, Pan American Silver Corporation, a Sumitomo Corporation branch, Ernst & Young, and the " MegaCenter ", Bolivia's biggest shopping mall ( 52. 000 mts2 of construction ).

La Paz remains the principal center of manufacturing enterprises that produce finished-product goods for the country, with about two-thirds of Bolivia's manufacturing located nearby.

" The tin quotations from London are watched in La Paz with close interest as an index of the country's prosperity ; a third of the national revenue and more than half of the total customs in 1925 were derived from tin ; in short, that humble but indispensable metal is the hub around which Bolivia's economic life revolves.

CABI promotes economic growth and survival of the Izoceno people while discouraging the rapid destruction of habitat within Bolivia's Gran Chaco.

They carried out their first attack on July 5, 1991, destroying an electric power pylon in El Alto, a major city which adjoins La Paz, Bolivia's administrative capital.

Resulting from the 1928 discovery of petroleum in the area, the dispute developed into war after Bolivia's appeal for Argentine intervention in what it saw as Paraguayan incursions into potentially oil-rich lands were rejected.

Bolivia's highest peak, the snowcapped Nevado Sajama ( 6, 542 m ), is located here.

Along the Altiplano's eastern side is a continuous flat area, which has served as Bolivia's principal north-south transport corridor since colonial times.

Two of Bolivia's most important cities, Sucre and Cochabamba, are located in basins in this vast region.

Santa Cruz, the largest city in the lowlands, is located here, as are most of Bolivia's petroleum and natural gas reserves.

Most of Bolivia's important rivers are found in the water-rich northern parts of the lowlands, particularly in the Alto Beni ( Upper Beni ), where the land is suitable for crops such as coffee and cacao.

Bolivia's current constitution is adopted via referendum in 2009, providing for a unitary secular state.

Bolivia's human development index was reported at 0. 663, comprising a health index of 0, 735, an education index of 0. 749 and a GNI index of 0. 530, ranking within the group of medium human development.

Bolivia's trade with neighboring countries is growing, in part because of several regional preferential trade agreements it has negotiated.

The United States remains one of Bolivia's largest trading partners ; however, it faded greatly on Brazil benefit in 2012.

Bolivia's major exports to the United States are tin, gold, jewelry, and wood products.

External creditors have been willing to do this because the Bolivian Government has generally achieved the monetary targets set by International Monetary Fund programs since 1987, though economic problems in recent years have undercut Bolivia's normally good track record.

As a result, some countries have forgiven substantial amounts of Bolivia's bilateral debt.

Investment ( gross fixed ): 3 % of GDP ( 2011 est.

Combined with $ 486. 9 billion in motor fuels sales, total convenience store sales in 2011 were $ 681. 9 billion, or one out of every 22 dollars of the overall $ 15. 04 trillion U. S. gross domestic product.

In May 2011, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries achieved a turbine inlet temperature of 1, 600 ° C on a 320 megawatt gas turbine, 460 MW in gas turbine combined-cycle power generation applications in which gross thermal efficiency exceeds 60 %.

In 2011, gross domestic product was US $ 12. 3bn, or $ 38, 000 per capita, based on purchasing power parity ( PPP ) estimates.

Metro Manila's gross regional product is estimated as of July 2011 to be $ 149 billion and accounts for 33 % of the nation's GDP.

A large portion of Knox County's economy is based on agriculture, with gross cash receipts for crops and livestock at $ 110 million for 2011.

In 2011, over £ 23. 447 billion of gross premium (£ 22. 592 billion in 2010 ) was transacted in the Lloyd's Market, but on aggregate the market made a loss ( before tax ) of £ 516 million (£ 2, 195 million Profit in 2010 ).

In 1982, the arcade video game industry reached its peak, generating $ 8 billion in quarters, equivalent to over $ 18. 5 billion in 2011, surpassing the annual gross revenue of both pop music ($ 4 billion ) and Hollywood films ($ 3 billion ) combined at that time.

In May 2011, the 106, 509 gross square foot Social and Behavioral Sciences Building at the north end of the campus opened.

In 2010 the box office gross in Hong Kong was HK $ 1. 339 billion and in 2011 it was HK $ 1. 379 billion.

On 27 September 2011, Lewis addressed the Labour Party conference in Liverpool outlining a proposal for " a new system of independent regulation " of the press and of journalists that " as other professions the industry should consider whether people guilty of gross malpractice should be struck off ", though without specifying in any detail how this might be achieved.

In November 2011, both Mn / DOT and WisDOT installed new signs to remind drivers that trucks over gross vehicle weight cannot use the Blatnik Bridge ; these vehicles will be rerouted to the nearby Bong Bridge.

The FICA tax is considered a regressive tax on income ( with no standard deduction or personal exemption deduction ) and is imposed ( for the years 2009, 2010 and 2011 ) only on the first $ 106, 800 of gross wages, and increasing to $ 110, 100 in 2012.

For the calendar years of 2011 and 2012, the employee's share has been temporarily reduced to 4. 2 % of gross compensation, with a limit of $ 106, 800 for 2011 and $ 110, 100 for 2012.

Currently, the average gross monthly wage in the city of Bor is US $ 730 ( RSD 54649, EUR 540, 944NZD )-As of August 2011

A key factor in Icesave ’ s appeal to savers was its interest rate guarantee: The gross Annual Equivalent Rate of Interest ( AER ) paid on balances over £ 250 was guaranteed to exceed the Bank of England Base Rate by at least 0. 25 % until 1 October 2009 and thereafter not to be lower than the Bank of England Base Rate until 1 October 2011.

In early 2011, Forbes reported that Steam sales constituted 50 to 70 % of the $ 4 billion market for downloaded PC games and that Steam offered game producers gross margins of 70 % of purchase price, compared with 30 % at retail.

She continues to be a lucrative star and brand in Japan, fetching high licensing / broadcasting rights for her dramas and selling out concerts and merchandise ( tvN E News compiled a list of the top Hallyu stars in Japan based on their approximate gross incomes for the first half of 2011, and Choi was # 5 with approximately $ 2 million USD ).

In August 2011, Becker's Hospital Review listed the New York-Presbyterian Hospital / Weill Cornell Medical Center as number 4 of the 100 Top Grossing Hospitals in America with $ 7. 52 billion in gross revenue.

In 2011, V & E ranked 55th on the AmLaw Global 100 2010, a ranking of the world's largest firms based on gross revenue.

As of 21St September 2011, Flying Bark Productions announced that they will make a new 3D Animated film of The Adventures of Blinky Bill with Alex Weight Directing the film and Marie-Cecile Dahan as the line producer, The film currently has an unknown release date, It is also unknown whether or not any members of the Dingo family will appear and if the film will be a remake to the original 1992 Yoram gross Movie and include songs.

This is a list of countries by government spending as a percentage of gross domestic product ( GDP ) for the listed countries, according to the 2011 Index of Economic Freedom by The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal.

In 2011, the US has an estimated per capita gross domestic product ( PPP ) of $ 47, 200, and is the most technologically developed economy in North America.