In a week beginning with a holiday, Uruguay hopes to dethrone Argentina as the country with the highest digital response rate to a census, while objections grow in the financial sphere for the debt restructuring project presented by Open Town Hall (CA).
The digital census ends
This Monday at 11:59 p.m. the deadline for Uruguayan households that until now have not done so to complete the digital form of the 2023 Census. 47% of the country has already carried out a self-census, which represents more than 1,500,000 people and more than 600,000 households, reported the National Statistics Institute (INE).
If the participants manage to exceed 50% participation by one, Uruguay will become the Latin American country with the highest digital response rate to a census, surpassing Argentina.
The objections to the project to restructure debts of individuals grow
The project of debt restructuring of individualspresented last week by Cabildo Abierto (CA), caused concern among financial institutions.
The initiative, to which CA awards the exit of Irene Moreira of the government, proposes two stages to resolve the delinquency of families: one at the Consumer Defense level of the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) and a second at the judicial level.
From the companies that grant credits, they consider that the friendly way to advance with a solution to the problem of small debtors is not the path proposed by Cabildo Abierto, but at the level of the Central Bank of Uruguay (BCU) with the modification of regulations already in force.
Water crisis: the government begins to monitor prices
The Consumer Defense Unit of the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) will begin to publish a weekly price comparison for bottled still water in Uruguay, with the aim that the population can monitor the values in the midst of the water crisis that is affecting the country and that has increased the demand for this product .
He Consumer Price Information System (SIPC) since 2016, on a daily basis, the prices of sparkling table water in presentations of 2.25 to 2.5 liters. The brands included are morning, native and helloand also divides the collected values by zones: MontevideoMetropolitan area and interior.
Source: Ambito
