Spanish Abstract: En este artículo se estudian los efectos potenciales que tendrían cambios en las políticas tributaria y fiscalizadora sobre el tamaño del sector informal en Colombia. Para ello se desarrolla un modelo de equilibrio general dinámico. Los resultados indican que el Gobierno,...

This article aims to make an approach to the definition and meaning of social policies through the theory of contracts, a distinction between these and public policy. For this, the contributions of some officials of the Municipality of Medellín and other municipal organizations in a focus group...

Spanish Abstract: Produciendo por Mi Futuro (PxMF) es una intervención de alivio a la pobreza, implementada en Colombia por Prosperidad Social, que tiene como sustento los programas de graduación desarrollados inicialmente por el BRAC Development Institute de Bangladesh, y posteriormente por...

Spanish Abstract: El artículo muestra que las aspiraciones educativas de los jóvenes son formadas por el entorno en el que viven, es decir, no sólo dependen de experiencias o características propias, sino también de las experiencias de las personas que se encuentran a su alrededor, en este...

This paper aims to evaluate education as a component of human capital in comparison to other types of investments that relate to the formation of this stock. First, in this study we use a nonparametric method, known as prospective, to estimate the value of human capital for a sample of ten Latin...

The urgent need for higher levels of productivity and competitiveness to meet the demands of the domestic and international market, poses serious challenges to productive and educational systems of the department of Santander, Colombia. It follows from the results obtained in the two sectors;...

Thomas Piketty's "Capital in the 21st century" has been the most important book economy in recent times. Its aim integrates the debate theories of growth, income distribution, inequality and differences between the extremes income and income of the majority. The work predicts a slow increase in...

It assesses the efficiency of the drinking water system for the station of Pisté, Yucatán; analyzing solution alternatives and determining the desirability of making the respective expansion and improvement projects. The work was based on the elaboration of a logical framework matrix of the...