In the developed world the importance of evidence-based policy is increasingly recognised. Panel studies – a long-term study design where a cross-sectional sample of units is selected and surveyed at regular intervals – are being used to gather information about the same people or...

Many developing countries are trying to improve the routine collection of health information by strengthening surveys, censuses, and registration systems. At the international level, too, efforts are underway to provide information on health and health interventions, including statistical...

Research on China’s role in the globalisation of economic activity focuses mainly on its involvement in trade and on its competitiveness as a manufacturing location for foreign investors. However, since the mid-1990s China’s outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) has become an...

In this paper we examine how business cycles in the home country affect outward flows of FDI (OFDI). We employ a panel data set of OFDI flows for a representative sample of countries from 1970 to 2011. The findings of the regression models that we have used are consistent with the hypothesis...

The objective of this report is to provide a general overview of the process of transformation and development of the financial system in Spain that has taken place since the decade of the seventies in the past century. The report shows the main distinctive features of the financialisation...

En este artículo presentamos una variante del modelo tradicional del modelo Mundell-Flemming. La misma introduce en dicho análisis el papel que juegan el déficit fiscal y el nivel de reservas en la determinación del riesgo país. Esta pequeña modificación en dicho paradigma tradicional...

This paper presents a theoretical framework to study the social cost of random mechanisms for allocation of resources instead of market or price oriented systems. The social cast of not allowing unrestricted sales of the telephone lines owned by ENTEL, wa

En Colombia, la función de interventoría resulta ser indispensable dentro de la contratación estatal debido a la necesidad de garantizar la calidad, cantidad costos y cronograma de los productos contratados. No obstante, la escaza formación en este aspecto, ha generado que la Interventoría...

Public schools in Chile receive a per-student subsidy depending on enrollment, and are managed by local governments that operate under soft budget constraints. In this paper, we study the effects of this system on per-student expenditures. Per-student expenditures on rural areas are 30% higher...