Purpose: The objective of this study is to analyze the role that budgetary analytical capacity (BAC) plays for fiscal discipline in a sample of Eurozone countries in the postcrisis period. Dessign/methodology/approach: Building on the policy capacity literature, an index for the BAC is...

En este papel se construyen umbrales de pobreza a nivel individual y familiar para tres realidades socioeconómicas en desarrollo (Polonia, Filipinas y México) y para una economía de referencia (España) y se comparan con los salarios mínimos legales y los prevalentes. Los resultados...

Road construction generally reduces the ecological value of the environment. To recover it, the value of the residual ecological impacts should be counterbalanced by compensation measures within the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) procedure. Ecological valuation and impact valuation are...

The general issues of equity and efficiency are central to the analysis of resource allocation problems in health care. We examine them using axiomatic bargaining theory. We study different solutions that have been proposed and relate them to previous literature on health care allocation. In...