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Opportunities For Living And Investing In Paraguay

Kathleen Peddicord by Kathleen Peddicord
Apr 19, 2015
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Discovering Paraguay

Paraguay is perhaps the least known, least understood country in the Americas—an enigma. It’s also a country with a complicated, troubled past and a nation today of stark contrasts.

Sounds like our kind of place.

Lief and I have been wanting to see Paraguay for ourselves for years. Finally, here we are, in Asunción. We’ll be reporting from the scene in real time throughout the week.

In the live, travel, invest overseas world, Paraguay is an underdog. We like underdogs. However, there’s a more compelling reason to be paying attention to this little-thought-of country right now. Paraguay doesn’t boast mega-tourist attractions, but it’s got something that should catch your attention as a global investor—a burgeoning agricultural industry and oodles of fertile land.

Paraguay is the world’s 10th-largest exporter of wheat.

It’s also the world’s eighth-largest beef exporter, seventh-largest exporter of corn, sixth-largest producer of soy, fifth-largest exporter of chia and soy flour, and fourth-largest exporter of yucca flour and soy oil.

Paraguay is the second-biggest stevia producer and exporter in the world and the world’s #1 exporter of organic sugar.

This country is also a competitive and tax-friendly investment hub. You pay no tax on yields earned from an investment in the Asunción stock exchange, and both the value-added (or sales) tax and the rate of corporate tax are 10%. This corporate tax rate compares nicely with those in Argentina (35%), Colombia and Brazil (34%), and Peru (30%).

At about 400,000 square kilometers, Paraguay is the size of California. It has a total population of 7 million (70% of which is younger than 30 years old), a working population of 3.1 million, and a GDP of US$26 billion. The guarani is the official currency; the current rate of exchange between the guarani and the U.S. dollar is about 4,975 to 1.

Paraguay’s capital, Asunción, from where I write, is located on the country’s western edge alongside the Paraguay River (think Mississippi River) and serves as a regional hub. You can fly from Asunción to most anywhere you’d want to go in South America—Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Sao Paolo, La Paz—within two hours. The country beyond the capital is divided into 17 departments, and the country overall is natural disaster risk free.

GDP and GDP per capita are both expanding, and the 10% rate of personal income tax is the lowest in the region. Elsewhere in South America, earners are paying 35% to 40%.

Inflation is historically a one-digit number and has not surpassed 5% in recent years. This speaks to the country’s stability.

Paraguay qualifies right now as a “blue ocean” market, an investment arena awash with opportunity. We, of course, are most interested in emerging property investment opportunities, rural, urban, and agricultural. The very young population, as it matures, is all going to need places to live, making the local housing market an interesting bet right now.

And, in the current global climate, a country with such an impressive agri-track record is definitely worth focused attention.

We’re thrilled, finally, to be here to take a look at all that Paraguay has to offer up-close and firsthand.

More tomorrow…

Kathleen Peddicord

 

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Kathleen Peddicord has covered the live, retire, and do business overseas beat for more than 30 years and is considered the world's foremost authority on these subjects. She has traveled to more than 75 countries, invested in real estate in 21, established businesses in 7, renovated historic properties in 6, and educated her children in 4.

Kathleen has moved children, staff, enterprises, household goods, and pets across three continents, from the East Coast of the United States to Waterford, Ireland... then to Paris, France... next to Panama City, where she has based her Live and Invest Overseas business. Most recently, Kathleen and her husband Lief Simon are dividing their time between Panama and Paris.

Kathleen was a partner with Agora Publishing’s International Living group for 23 years. In that capacity, she opened her first office overseas, in Waterford, Ireland, where she managed a staff of up to 30 employees for more than 10 years. Kathleen also opened, staffed, and operated International Living publishing and real estate marketing offices in Panama City, Panama; Granada, Nicaragua; Roatan, Honduras; San Miguel de Allende, Mexico; Quito, Ecuador; and Paris, France.

Kathleen moved on from her role with Agora in 2007 and launched her Live and Invest Overseas group in 2008. In the years since, she has built Live and Invest Overseas into a successful, recognized, and respected multi-million-dollar business that employs a staff of 35 in Panama City and dozens of writers and other resources around the world.

Kathleen has been quoted by The New York Times, Money magazine, MSNBC, Yahoo Finance, the AARP, and beyond. She has appeared often on radio and television (including Bloomberg and CNBC) and speaks regularly on topics to do with living, retiring, investing, and doing business around the world.

In addition to her own daily e-letter, the Overseas Opportunity Letter, with a circulation of more than 300,000 readers, Kathleen writes regularly for U.S. News & World Report and Forbes.

Her newest book, "How to Retire Overseas: Everything You Need to Know to Live Well (for Less) Abroad," published by Penguin Random House, is the culmination of decades of personal experience living and investing around the world.

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