The purpose of this article is to build the PQLI Index for each one of the 22 Departments in which the Republic of Guatemala is divided and afterwards to determine which subregions are those in demand for further welfare. The data used was gathered from an updated version of the Integrated...

Este trabajo avanza en el estudio de la convergencia en el ingreso regional en Colombia, a través del análisis de las cifras de ingreso departamental calculadas por el CEGA recientemente. Los resultados muestran un proceso de polarización entre Bogotá y el resto de departamentos. También...

A recent transition in the field of agrarian economics theory is that of a move away from a narrow agricultural sector approach to rural development, to one which adopts broader territorial approaches. This passage seeks to interpret the interactions between urban and rural worlds in a more...

A recent transition in rural development policies is that of a move from a narrow sectoral approach of rural development, to one that adopts a broader territorial vision. This relatively new theoretical perspective is of peculiar interest to academics and politicians in Latin American countries...

Recognizing that poverty in the fields of Latin America has not been overcome with the model of agribusiness and agro-exporting, the paradigm of new rurality emerges as a response to meet the demands of the rural areas. This vision is now the basis of rural policies in Latin America and other...

Los programas de microfinanzas, a la vez que estrategia para reducir la pobreza, pueden tener efecto en el desempeño escolar de los hijos de sus clientes. Este trabajo utiliza datos de tres encuestas realizadas a hogares clientes de organizaciones microfinancieras en Bolivia, para examinar...

<B>Spanish Abstract: Esta investigación describe una condición de los actores principales de la actividad turístico-hotelera, en Guayaquil, Ecuador, específicamente a los responsables de la alta gerencia y de mandos medios, pues en ambos casos, existe una escasísima formación académica o...</b>