A vast proportion of households in developing countries like Paraguay are both consumers and producers of food, and thus the effects of food price fluctuations on welfare are not obvious. Historically, the agricultural sector in Paraguay has played a key role in economic development and has...

The Paraguayan economy did not suffer debt crises in the eighties and had significant growth rates in the second half on the seventies, but poverty remained a problem. Understanding the performance and spatial distribution of poverty and inequality over a period of more than ten years can shed...

"El Gobierno electo: herencia, posibilidades y desafios. Imperativos técnicos, conflictos de objetivos, estructuras de poder. Equilibrio macro-económico y proceso de pauperización. Itaipú Binacional: "Precio justo" y soberania paraguyaya. Sistema financiero local fortalecido. Integración...

"Outlaw Capital explores the ethnographic case of Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, which is described as the "largest illicit economy in the Western Hemisphere." Jennifer Lee Tucker details the city's transformation from a tiny frontier outpost into a global trading hub and demonstrates the key...

Covers data from 1990 to 1997.