Modern Paraguay

2021-05-24

My first thanks go to Sandip Mehta and Angie Mizeur, who in the early stages of doubt and second-guessing the whole book-writing enterprise provided the cheerleading I needed to take the plunge. Elizabeth Knox gave me early guidance on ...

Author: Tomás Mandl

Publisher: McFarland

ISBN: 9781476684680

Category: History

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Paraguay has been called the least-known country in Latin America, an island surrounded by land, and the "South American Tibet." For many years, foreign writers and journalists described it as an enigmatic land where a peculiar people endured calamities and Nazis sought refuge. Tomas Mandl spent 2016 to 2020 traveling through the country, meeting leading minds and sifting through data. Drawing on more than 40 interviews with historians, political scientists, economists, journalists and diplomats, this book provides a timely assessment of Paraguay's strengths, challenges and developmental outlook, and their implications for the world.
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Understanding the Determinants of Economic Informality in Paraguay

2019-08-21

This book is a byproduct of a US Fulbright Scholar appointment to Paraguay during 2019. ... between the authors uniting a strong knowledge of informality from Mesoamerica with strong knowledge of Paraguayan data and local context.

Author: Michael J. Pisani

Publisher: Springer Nature

ISBN: 9783030243937

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 181

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For several years, the government of Paraguay has sought to address the issue of informality, both as a response to poverty reduction and a means to expand its tax base. While effort has been undertaken to describe informality, the government lacks the capacity and perhaps the will to analyze the phenomenon through a robust empirical lens. Hence, little is known about the informal economy beyond anecdotes, personal interactions, and description. This book is the first to comprehensively, rigorously, and empirically study the determinants of informality in Paraguay. This book is of vital interest to those studying the Paraguayan economy, development economics, Latin American economics, and informality.
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A Guide to Collections on Paraguay in the United States

1995-01-01

Indeed, until the 1 980s, the number of specialists in the United States with real experience in, and knowledge of, Paraguay could be counted on a person's fingers. Nonetheless, by the 1980s a small, though highly dedicated, ...

Author: Thomas Whigham

Publisher: ABC-CLIO

ISBN: 9780313292033

Category: History

Page: 114

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A detailed description of Paraguayan materials, including diplomatic correspondence, missionary records, political reports, and unpublished reminiscences, held in American repositories.
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The history of Paraguay

2022-07-29

During the time of his long imprisonment , having been permitted to receive books from his family , he had become ... and thereupon he was made Chief - Justice of Paraguay , having , and pretending to have , no more knowledge of law ...

Author: Charles A. Washburn

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

ISBN: 9783368121013

Category: Fiction

Page: 598

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
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The South American Year Book and Directory

1915

Purchase of Land in Paraguay . Cattle Raising . ... Furthermore , many of these Buenos Aires brokers advertise as possessing full knowledge of Paraguayan land , and even pretend to take in hand the interests of their eventual customer .

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ISBN: UCAL:$B721027

Category: Railroads

Page: 998

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The History of Paraguay

1871

In giving so many and such long extracts from this book of Bliss , it has not been my object to amuse the reader so ... who would defile the fountains of knowledge by substituting for the pious teachings of the priests of Paraguay the ...

Author: Charles Ames Washburn

Publisher:

ISBN: UOMDLP:ard0779:0002.001

Category: Paraguay

Page: 660

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Paraguay

2009-12-07

With the exception of a few publications from domestic think thanks and reports by international organizations, there is a real scarcity of economic analysis or knowledge about the Paraguayan economy.1 While many economies in Latin ...

Author: Alejandro Santos

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

ISBN: 9781589068520

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 334

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Paraguay: Addressing the Stagnation and Instability Trap provides an overview of the analytical insights and policy challenges that a country faces while on the path to sustained growth with stability. It covers a wide range of themes, including improving macroeconomic assessments and policy implementation, eliminating turbulence and deepening financial reforms, and, most important of all, enhancing growth performance and reducing poverty. This book provides useful guidance for policymakers by examining the improvements in policy implementation in Paraguay since the regional crisis of 2002. The chapters discuss how to correct economic imbalances and institutional shortcomings in the context of an economic reform program. The results have been impressive with the Paraguayan economy experiencing the highest growth in a quarter of a century and the strongest financial system in decades.
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Francisco Solano L pez and the Ruination of Paraguay

2007

On a later visit , he made me a gift of his recent books , and he drove me around the city on both occasions . ... his extensive research and vast knowledge of the history of nineteenth - century Paraguay have been invaluable .

Author: James Schofield Saeger

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

ISBN: 0742537552

Category: History

Page: 256

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The first serious biography of Francisco Solano López in English for decades, this richly researched book tells the dramatic story of Paraguay's most notorious ruler. Despite the heroic stature he gained after his death, López was a monumentally flawed leader who made the disastrous decisions in 1864 and 1865 to invade Paraguay's powerful neighbors, Brazil and Argentina, initiating the most devastating interstate conflict in South American history. Drawing on a trove of primary sources, James Schofield Saeger offers a critical analysis of López's personality and often-irrational persecution of enemies, adherents, and siblings. He traces López's preparation for high public office, work habits, control of his nation and army, propaganda, and execution. Concluding with an examination of López's posthumous rehabilitation, Saeger shows how the tyrant who ruined his nation became its most highly honored hero, crowning a campaign by revisionist publicists from 1870-1936, and a useful symbol for later authoritarians. Still largely unchallenged in Paraguay today, this glorification of a martial president is definitively put to rest in Saeger's meticulous study.
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Commercial Travelers Guide to Latin America

1931

The population has been officially estimated at 800,000 , but this figure is not accepted by many residents in Paraguay , who , having first - hand knowledge of the country , claim the total population at not more than 700,000 , about 4 ...

Author: United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce

Publisher:

ISBN: UIUC:30112104122954

Category: Latin America

Page: 630

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The War in Paraguay

2020-09-10

The TREASURY of BIBLE KNOWLEDGE ; being a Dictionary of the Books , Persons , Places , Events , and other matters of which mention is modo in Holy Scripturo . By Rev. J. AYRE , M.A. With Dlaps , 16 Plates , and numerous Woodcuts .

Author: George Thompson

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

ISBN: 9783846058565

Category: Fiction

Page: 414

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
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