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CAUTION: The following links and
accompanying text have been culled from the web to illuminate the situation
in Paraguay in the early years of the 21st Century. Some of these links
may lead to websites that present allegations that are unsubstantiated,
misleading or even false. No attempt has been made to validate
their authenticity or to verify their content. HOW TO USE THIS WEBPAGE Students If you are looking
for material to use in a term-paper, you are advised to scan the postings on
this page and others to see which aspects of poverty are of particular
interest to you. You might be
interested in exploring the relationship between distribution of labor and
per-capita GDP, for example. Perhaps
your paper could focus on life expectancy or infant mortality. Other factors of interest might be
unemployment, literacy, access to basic services, etc. On the other hand, you might choose to
include some of the possible outgrowths of poverty such as Human Trafficking,
Street Children,
or even Prostitution. There is a lot to the subject of
Poverty. Scan other countries as well
as this one. Draw comparisons between
activity in adjacent countries and/or regions. Meanwhile, check out some of the Term-Paper resources
that are available on-line. Teachers Check out some of
the Resources
for Teachers attached to this website. *** Extreme Weather *** Paraguay is
experiencing more frequent extreme events, including intense rainfall and
heat waves. These occurrences have a negative impact across various sectors. In
recent years, widespread flooding has affected tens of thousands of people in
South America, with Paraguay being particularly hard hit. Heavy summer
rainfall led to the worst flooding in decades, resulting in the evacuation of
approximately 90,000 people from their homes. – adapted from Microsoft BING Copilot *** ARCHIVES *** The World Factbook - Paraguay U.S. Central Intelligence Agency CIA www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/pa.html [accessed 16
November 2020] World Factbook
website has moved to ---> www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/paraguay/ [accessed 4 January 2021] ECONOMIC OVERVIEW - landlocked
Paraguay – fifth-largest soy producer in the world - has a commodity-based
market economy, distinguished by a large informal sector but hampered by
corruption, deficient infrastructure, and limited progress on economic
reforms GDP - per capita (PPP): $12,800 (2017 est.) Labor force - by
occupation: agriculture: 26.5% industry: 18.5% services: 55% (2008 est.) Unemployment rate: 5.7% (2017 est.) Population below
poverty line: 22.2% (2015 est.) Maternal mortality
rate: 84 deaths/100,000 live births (2017
est.) Infant mortality
rate: total: 16.9 deaths/1,000 live births Life expectancy at
birth: total population: 77.9 years Drinking water
source: improved: total: 100% of population Physicians
density: 1.37 physicians/1,000 population (2018) Sanitation facility
access: improved: total: 93.1% of population Electricity access:
electrification - total population: 98.4% (2016) The
Borgen Project - Paraguay borgenproject.org/category/paraguay/ [accessed 28 February 2021] The Borgen Project works with U.S. leaders to utilize the United
States’ platform behind efforts toward improving living conditions for the
world’s poor. It is an innovative,
national campaign that is working to make poverty a focus of U.S. foreign
policy. It believes that leaders of
the most powerful nation on earth should be doing more to address global
poverty. From ending segregation to providing women with the right to vote,
nearly every wrong ever righted in history was achieved through advocacy. The
Borgen Project addresses the big picture, operating
at the political level advancing policies and programs that improve living
conditions for those living on less than $1 per day. ~
Microcredits For Women In Paraguay borgenproject.org/microcredits-for-women/ ~
Poverty In Paraguay borgenproject.org/poverty-paraguay/ ~
7 Facts About Healthcare In Paraguay borgenproject.org/healthcare-in-paraguay-2/ ~
Hunger In Paraguay borgenproject.org/hunger-in-paraguay/ ~
Updates On SDG Goal 14 In Paraguay borgenproject.org/updates-on-sdg-14-in-paraguay/ ~
Homelessness In Paraguay borgenproject.org/causes-homelessness-in-paraguay/ ~
The Regional Disparities Of Healthcare In Paraguay borgenproject.org/healthcare-in-paraguay/ ~
Hydroelectric Power In Paraguay borgenproject.org/fwd-feature-writer-article-2/ The
World Bank in Paraguay www.worldbank.org/en/country/paraguay/overview [accessed 21 April 2021] Thanks
to its sound and predictable macroeconomic bases; solid financial system;
poverty reduction and other policies, Paraguay has seen an extraordinary growth
in the past few years, paving the way to economic success with social
inclusion. Looking back a few years … Advameg, Inc., Encyclopedia of the Nations www.nationsencyclopedia.com/Americas/Paraguay-ECONOMY.html [accessed 8 December 2020] Paraguay
suffered for years from runaway inflation. The IMF joined the US government
in 1957 in providing for stabilization loans that enabled Paraguay to establish
a free exchange system and accelerate the pace of public investment. An
economic reform package instituted in the early 1990s included judicial
reform, a macro-economic stabilization program featuring fiscal austerity,
liberalization of the exchange rate, and efforts to privatize state-owned
enterprises. All
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