Thomas Otter Bücher

The book explores the complex relationship between software development and legal compliance, highlighting how enterprise software can both assist organizations in adhering to regulations and inadvertently create negative externalities that affect rights. It delves into developers' understanding of legal concepts and provides concrete examples, including payroll systems, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, web accessibility, and data protection. By emphasizing the regulatory role of developers, it addresses the critical need for awareness of legal implications in software design.

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 new light on structural causes behind what seems to be a low growth – high poverty – high inequality trap in Paraguay. How did poverty and inequality change during the 1990s. Did inequality reduce income growth? What were the growth determinants and what are the main forces driving inequality changes? These are the questions being answered in this book.