Financing Social Protection in Paraguay

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Sofía Felípez Borrea and Mariona Mas Montserrat for their contribution on the assessment of tobacco taxation. The authors are also grateful to all the government officials that contributed to this analysis, with special thanks to Adriana Samaniego, Rolando Sapriza, Liz Coronel, Miguel Vega, Belen Insauralde, Gerardo Benitez (MEF); Diego Dominguez, Raúl Taboada, Lilián Román (DNIT); José Gabriel Velázquez, Juan Carlos Frutos, Patricia Gimenez, Vanessa Cubas, Gladys Vera (IPS); Cinthia Arrua, Rossana Duarte, Lilian Meza, Reveca Chavez (MDS); Celso Ovando (INE); Patricia Gonzalez, Victoria Sosa (MSPBS); Diego Sanabria, Alejandra Garcete, Fernando Ovando, and Joryan Rossati (MTESS), for their active involvement and support throughout the project. The authors would like to thank Guillermo Montt of the International Labour Organization and Ignacio Apella of the World Bank for their valuable insights. This report also benefited from the support of Carrie Tyler, Karena Garnier, Natalie Lagorce and Ria Sandilands of the OECD Communications team.