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VAT is not an instrument to combat informality

By Ro­drigo Ibar­rola Af­ter months of un­cer­tainty, the Ex­ec­u­tive Power fi­nally ve­toed com­pletely the Law that would have al­lowed ser­vice providers to deduct Value Added Tax (VAT) on pur­chases of food prod­ucts, cloth­ing and other items that would not usu­ally be d... More »

How are other countries in the region mitigating fuel price increases?

By Ro­drigo Ibar­rola In the last few weeks, fuel prices have un­der­gone vari­a­tions, first down­ward, then up­ward, and fi­nally down­ward again due to Petropar’s po­si­tion of main­tain­ing its prices. These move­ments were jus­ti­fied by the rise in the dol­lar ex­change ra... More »

Why are there so many gas stations in Paraguay?

By Javier Las­salle High oil prices and pub­lic pol­icy at­tempts to mit­i­gate the ef­fects of the rise put the fuel sec­tor un­der the spot­light. Al­though the pol­icy mea­sures (such as the sta­bi­liza­tion fund or the sub­sidy to Petropar) sought a tem­po­rary so­lu­tion, in ... More »


How does the Central Bank gauge inflation?

Ro­drigo Ibar­rola Re­gard­less of whether or not the mea­sure­ments re­flect the re­al­ity of each Paraguayan house­hold (an ob­jec­tive im­pos­si­ble to achieve faith­fully), it is not un­usual to ques­tion the in­fla­tion re­ported by the Cen­tral Bank of Paraguay, mea­sured by t... More »

Bandit state(s) and fraudulent bourgeoisie(ies)

Jorge Rolón Luna * To­day’s world is ruled by crooks and thieves; more­over, traf­fick­ers, pi­rates and smug­glers are re­shap­ing it ac­cord­ing to their in­ter­ests, af­fect­ing gov­ern­ments, vi­o­lat­ing so­ci­eties and un­der­min­ing democ­ra­cies, ar­gue Olivier Bul­lough and Mois... More »

The end of North American hegemony, a myth

By Nel­son De­nis. Dur­ing the 1970s, var­i­ous aca­d­e­mics be­gan to no­tice cer­tain weak­nesses in Amer­i­can for­eign pol­icy. This was the time of the Amer­i­can de­feat in the Viet­nam War, the break­down of the Bret­ton Woods Sys­tem, the first oil cri­sis, and the end of acc... More »