Abbreviations and acronyms
Asociación de Estados del Caribe (Association of Caribbean States)
Agencia Financiera de Desarrollo (Financial Development Agency)
Asociación Interamericana de Ingeniería Sanitaria y Ambiental (Inter-American Association of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering)
Agencia de Información Paraguaya (Paraguayan Information Agency)
Asociación Latinoamericana de Instituciones Financieras para el Desarrollo (Latin American Association of Financial Institutions for Development)
Administración Nacional de Electricidad (National Electricity Administration)
Administración Nacional de Navegación y Puertos (National Administration of Navigation and Ports)
Banco Central del Paraguay (Central Bank of Paraguay)
Programa Nacional de Becas de Postgados en el Exterior Don Carlos Antonio López (National Program of Postgraduate Scholarships Abroad Don Carlos Antonio López)
Base Erosion and Profit Shifting
Banco Internacional de Reconstrucción y Fomento (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development)
Banco Nacional de Fomento (National Development Bank)
Centro de Análisis y Difusión de la Economía Paraguya (Center for Analysis and Dissemination of the Paraguayan Economy)
Corporación Andina de Fomento – Banco de Desarrollo de América Latina (Andean Development Corporation – Development Bank of Latin America)
Compound Annualised Growth Rate
Climate Analysis Indicators Tool
Censo Agropecuario Nacional (National Agriculture Census)
Conditional Cash Transfer
Consorcio de Ganaderos para Experimentación Agropecuaria (Livestock Center for Agricultural Experimentation)
Conferencia Estadística de las Américas (Statistical Conference of the Americas)
Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations
Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (Centre for Distributive, Labour and Social Studies)
European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice
Centre d’Études Prospectives et d’Informations Internationales (Center for Prospective Studies and International Information)
Centro Interamericano de Administraciones Tributarias (Inter-American Centre of Tax Administrations)
Consejo nacional de empresas públicas (National Council of Public Enterprises)
Carbon dioxide
Conferencia de Ministros de Justicia de los Países Iberoamericanos (Conference of Ministers of Justice of the Ibero-American countries)
Comisión Nacional de Competencia (National Competition Commission)
Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (National Council for Science and Technology)
Comisión Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (National Telecommunications Commission)
Consumer Price Index
Contratos de Rehabilitación y Mantenimiento (Rehabilitation and Maintenance Contracts)
Dirección de Evaluación de la Calidad Educativa (Directorate for Evaluation of Educational Quality)
Dirección General de Estadística, Encuestas y Censos (General Directorate of Statistics, Surveys and Censuses)
Dirección de Beneficencia y Ayuda Social (Directorate for charity and social assistance)
Dirección Nacional de Aeronáutica Civil (National Directorate of Civil Aeronautics)
Dirección Nacional de Transporte (National Directorate of Transport)
Dirección Nacional de Contrataciones Públicas (National Directorate of Public Procurement)
Dirección del Sistema de Inversión Pública (Directorate of the Public Investment System)
Encuesta Continua de Empleo (Continuous Labour Force Survey)
Economic Complexity Index
United Nations Economic Commission for Latin American and the Caribbean
Enhanced General Data Dissemination System
Encuesta de Innovación Empresarial de Paraguay (Entrepreneurial Innovation Survey)
Encuesta sobre Inclusión Financiera (Survey on Financial Inclusion)
Education Management Information System
Equipo Nacional de Estrategia País (National Team of Country Strategy)
Encuesta Permanente de Hogares (Permanent Household Survey)
Employment Protection Legislation
Ejército del Pueblo Paraguayo (Army of the Paraguayan People [rebel group])
European Union
Euro
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database
Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces [rebel group])
Foreign Direct Investment
Fondo para la excelencia de la educación y la investigación (Fund for excellence in Education and Research)
Fondo para la Convergencia Estructural del MERCOSUR (Fund for the Structural Convergence of MERCOSUR)
Fondo Nacional de Inversión Pública y de Desarrollo (National Fund for Public Investment and Development)
Fondo Nacional de la Vivienda Social (National Fund for Social Housing)
Fiscal Responsibility Law
Gross Domestic Product
Gross expenditure on research and development
Global Forum on Productivity
Greenhouse Gas
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (German Corporation for International Cooperation GmbH)
Global Network on Energy for Sustainable Development
Gross National Income
Herfindahl-Hirschmann Index
International Standard Classification of Status in Employment
Information and Communication Technology
Inter-American Development Bank
Income Distribution Database
Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
International Energy Agency
International Finance Corporation
Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation
International Labour Organization
International Monetary Fund
National Co-operative Institute
Instituto Nacional de Desarrollo Rural y de la Tierra (National Institute for Land and Rural Development)
Instituto Forestal Nacional (National Forest Institute)
Database on investment in economic infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean
International Organization of Securities Commissions
Instituto de Previsión Social (Social Security Institute)
Impuesto sobre la Renta Comercial, Industrial o de Servicios (Tax on Commercial, Industrial or Services Income)
Impuesto sobre la Renta de las Actividades Agropecuarias (Income Tax for Agricultural Activities)
Independent Reporting Mechanism
Impuesto Selectivo al Consumo (Selective Consumption Tax)
International Standard Classification of Education
International Security Sector Advisory Team
Information Technology
International Telecommunications Union
Key Indicators of the Labour Market
Latin America and the Caribbean
Latin American Integration Association
Laboratorio Latinoamericano de Evaluación de la Calidad de la Educación (Latin American Laboratory for Education Quality Assessment)
Multi-dimensional Country Review
Ministerio de Educación y Cultura (Ministry for Education and Culture)
Modelo Estándar de Control Interno de las Entidades Públicas Paraguayas (Standard Model of Internal Control of Paraguayan Public Entities)
Mercado Común del Sur (Southern Common Market)
Ministerio de Hacienda (Ministry of Finance)
Ministerio de Industria y Comercio (Ministry of Industry and Commerce)
Ministerio de Obras Públicas y Comunicaciones (Ministry of Public Works and Communications)
Ministerio de Salud Pública y Bienestar Social (Ministry of Public Health and Social Well-being)
Ministerio de Trabajo, Empleo y Seguridad Social (Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security)
Megawatts
Net Domestic Product
Not in education, employment or training
National Plan for the Prevention of Corruption
National Statistical System
Observatorio de Economía Internacional (Observatory of International Economy)
Official Development Assistance
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Observatorio Fiscal y Presupuestario (Fiscal and Budgetary Observatory)
Open Government Partnership
Organización Latinoamericana de Energía (Latin American Energy Organization)
Operational Programmes
Pan American Health Organization
Procurador General de la República (Attorney General of the Republic)
Programme for International Student Assessment
PISA for Development
Personal Income Tax
Partido Liberal Radical Auténtico (Authentic Radical Liberal Party)
Particulate Matter
Product Market Regulation
Plan Nacional de Desarrollo (National Development Plan)
Action Plan for Deforestation Prevention and Control in the Legal Amazon
Purchasing Power Parity
Public-Private Partnership
Programa de Promoción de la Reforma Educativa en América Latina y el Caribe (Program for the Promotion of Educational Reform in Latin America and the Caribbean)
Programme for the development of science and technology
Planos Regionais de Ordemanmento do Território (Regional Development Plans)
Penn World Tables
Paraguayan Guaraní
Research and Development
Red de Exportaciones e Inversiones (Export and Investment Network)
Return on assets
Residuos sólidos urbanos (urban solid waste)
Secretaría de Acción Social (Social Action Secretariat)
Superior Council of the Judiciary
Special Data Dissemination Standard
Secretaría del Ambiente (Secretariat of the Environment)
Socio-Economic Database for Latin America and the Caribbean
Secretaría Nacional Anticorrupción (National Anti-corruption Secretariat)
Servicio Nacional de Calidad y Salud Animal (National Service for Animal Health and Quality)
Secretaría Nacional por los Derechos Humanos de las Personas con Discapacidad (National Secretariat for the Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities)
Servicio Nacional de Saneamiento Ambiental (National Service of Environmental Sanitation)
Servicio Nacional de Calidad y Sanidad Vegetal y de Semillas (National Service for Plant and Seed Quality and Health)
Secretaría Nacional de la Vivienda y el Hábitat (Secretariat for Housing and Habitat)
Subsecretaría de Estado de Tributación (Undersecretary of State for Taxation)
Servicio Forestal Nacional (National Forest Service)
Secretaría de la Función Pública (Civil Service Sercretariat)
+ Generalised System of Preferences Plus
Sistema Integrado Centralizado de la Carrera Administrativa (Centralized Integrated System of the Administrative Career)
Sistema de Información de Estadística Continua (Continuous Statistical Information System)
Sistema de Intercambio de Información (Information Exchange System)
Sistema Nacional de Formación y Capacitación Laboral (National training and skill formation system)
System of National Accounts
Sistema Nacional de Evaluación del Proceso Educativo (National system for the evaluation of educational processes)
Sistema Nacional de Inversión Pública (National Public Investment System)
Sistema Nacional de Promoción Profesional (National professional promotion system)
State-owned enterprise
Secretaría Técnica de Planificación (Technical Secretariat of Planning)
Sistema unificado de apertura y cierre de empresas (Unified system for opening and closing businesses)
Tercer estudio regional comparativo y explicativo (Third Regional Comparative and Explanatory Study)
Total Factor Productivity
UNESCO Institute of Statistics
United Nations
Universidad Nacional de Asunción (National University of Asunción)
United Nations Convention Against Corruption
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
United Nations Development Programme
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
United Nations Children’s Fund
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
United States of America
United States Dollars
Unidades de salud de la familia (Family healthcare units)
Unidades de Transparencia y Anticorrupción (Transparency and Anti-Corruption Units)
Value-added tax
Ventanilla Única del Exportador (One-stop shop for the exporter)
World Economic Forum
World Economic Outlook
World Health Organization
World Land Trust
World Wildlife Fund