By Marcos Perez Talia On October 10, 2021, Paraguay will hold its seventh municipal elections since the fall of the stronista dictatorship. These elections were originally scheduled for November 2020, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, they were postponed to 20... More »
By Rodrigo Ibarrola. Citizens continue to show their dissatisfaction with the government’s policies to combat the pandemic. Vaccines arrive in insufficient numbers, those that do arrive are not used as expected because there is no serious effort to get them to... More »
By María José Patiño Valiente. * Chronic non-communicable diseases (CNCDs) are one of the leading annual causes of global deaths. Statistics from the World Health Organization (WHO) show CNCD related deaths have increased by 28% worldwide. The Global Burden of... More »
By María José Patiño Valiente* Diet plays a fundamental role in the development of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Scientific evidence shows that a diet rich in saturated fats with low intake of fruits or vegetables influences population health and i... More »
Special series by Terere Cómplice “The future of work and the jobs of the future” By Claudia Pompa. Advances in technology, globalization, and high levels of economic integration in recent decades have transformed not only how we work and what we do, but also ... More »
Special series by Terere Cómplice “The future of work and the jobs of the future” By Claudia Pompa. The economic crisis resulting from the COVID pandemic has dramatically accelerated the processes of workplace automation. In this context, automation means the ... More »
Special series by Terere Cómplice “The future of work and the jobs of the future” By Claudia Pompa. The first industrial revolution used the power of water and steam to mechanize production. The second used electrical energy to give rise to mass production. Th... More »
Special series by Terere Cómplice “The future of work and the jobs of the future” By Claudia Pompa. “We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist, using technologies that haven’t been invented, in order to solve problems we don’t even know... More »
Special series by Terere Cómplice “The future of work and the jobs of the future” By Claudia Pompa. Even though developing economies, such as Paraguay, have improved their levels of educational attainment, the gap between the skills acquired through formal edu... More »
Por Mario Villalba. We live in a country where cows fly in airplanes while cars float by in the streets due to the storm floods. Here, there is an inconvenient, vastly ignored, but highly urgent debate: the transition from a traditionally rural Paraguayan soci... More »
By Fernando Martínez Escobar. In these days of street demonstrations there is once again an impeachment process unfolding. The accusatory libels seem to be ready and there are already discussions about what they contain and whether this is reasonable or not. H... More »
