This study evaluated the impact of the University Initiation Course (UIC) of the Andres Bello Catholic University, Montalban, Caracas, Venezuela, from 2008 to 2011, under the hypothesis of a better academic result for the students that participated in this program. The research was based on a...

The contents of the present work focus on contrasting the possible contribution of the funds from the second pillar of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to improving the evolution of one of the economic variables that is usually included as an objective to be achieved by rural development...

The levels of competitiveness that globalization imposes on companies, requires them to use tools to continuously improve the levels of productivity and efficiency in their production processes. Within the classification of waste that affect productivity, highlights the time as one of the most...

This paper aims to study the determinants of financial deepening (FD) in Mexico. FD is measured as the fraction of total credit assigned to private sector as a proportion of GDP. The explanatory variables include: enforcing contracts (rule of law) and institutions; bank regulation; bank...

Using the same model that Caballero-Urdiales {\it et al.} (2012) and Brito-Gaona and Iglesias (2017) applied to Latin-American countries, we extend their analysis to the European Union (EU) in order to analyze the determinants of private investment. Results show consistent evidence with three...

The goal of this paper is to analyze the local government's perception about the significance of a discrete multi-criteria method for assessing proposals for urban expansion (PUE). The study case was performed, by using PROMETHEE method, in Río Cuarto, Córdoba, Argentina. The decision matrix...

Factor analysis is a method used to reduce several variables into fewer dimensions called factors. This study conducts factor analysis on the financial ratios of the construction companies in Colombia in the period 2000--2014. According to that, the purpose of the study is to use the factorial...

This study examines the dynamic nexus betwixt oil prices, twenty-two world agricultural commodity prices and given the evolution of the relative strength of the US dollar in a panel setting. We use panel cointegration and Panel Granger causality methods for a panel of twenty-two agricultural...

Nowadays, there are many countries implementing the International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) under the assumption that they allow to provide quality to accounting information, as well as greater transparency and accountability. This research, in turn, seeks to establish that this...